Arch B. Swank Jr. collection, 1951-1979.

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Arch B. Swank Jr. collection, 1951-1979.

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Arch B. Swank, Jr. (1913-1999) is one of the great innovative figures of Texas architecture, working on such projects as the semiconductor complex in Richardson (1958) for Texas Instruments and the Great Southwest Corporation's industrial park in Arlington (1958). Architectural drawings and reproductions, building specifications, financial documentation, correspondence, legal documentation, reports, photographic material, maps, minutes, creative works, printed material, and material samples (1951-1979, 18 cubic ft. excluding drawings) document his work.

<323> project sets of drawings (ca. 8000 sheets), <18> cubic ft. of archival material, photographs, renderings.

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