Cope & Stewardson architectural drawings, 1890-1958, bulk 1890-1929.

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Cope & Stewardson architectural drawings, 1890-1958, bulk 1890-1929.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232992859

The Cope & Stewardson Collection comprises architectural drawings and photomechanical prints documenting buildings and projects of Cope & Stewardson and its successor firm Stewardson and Page. The most numerous drawings are construction drawings, but the collection includes fine examples of design and presentation drawings. Among these is a presentation drawing of the Quadrangle Dormitories, ca. 1894, signed by Charles Z. Klauder. The collection does not contain any photographs, specifications or correspondence, nor is there any documentation for the teaching activities or personal lives of any members of the firms. The fullest holdings in this collection are drawings for buildings on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection includes documentation for some later alterations and additions to buildings designed by Cope & and Stewardson and Stewardson and Page for the University of Pennsylvania. Most important are drawings (1946) for Robert Rodes McGoodwin's addition to the North Wing of the Veterinary Medicine Old Quadrangle and drawings (1953-1958) for Trautwein and Howard's final section of the Quadrangle Dormitories. The collection does not include any drawings for buildings on any other college or university campus. Other projects represented in the collection include hospitals, commercial buildings and houses. Samuel Sloan's design for Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, is documented in a set of 1926 Stewardson and Page survey drawings of existing buildings. Also noteworthy are two Philadelphia commercial buildings designed by Cope & Stewardson in 1893 for Charles Custis Harrison, who later became provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

Architectural drawings 3760 sheets : various media.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7102265

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McGoodwin, Robert Rodes, 1886-1967

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Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884

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University of Pennsylvania.

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In 1919 Edward Bushnell was appointed publicity agent for the University of Pennsylvania. His appointment began a long and expanding effort at public relations at the University. In 1954 the Department of Public Relations expanded its work to include two new units, Motion Picture Services and the Office of Radio and Television. These two offices operated until 1975 when they were phased out of a stream-lined department. From the description of University Film Collection, 1915-1989. (...

Harrison, Charles Custis, 1844-1929

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Trautwein and Howard.

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Cope, Walter, 1860-1902.

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Cope & Stewardson

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Cope & Stewardson, established in 1885, was one of the most important scholastic architecture firms in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, and are particularly known for their work in Collegiate Gothic mode. Founders Walter Cope (1860-1902) and John Stewardson (1858-1896) used their prominent Quaker family connections to get their earliest important commissions at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges in 1886, but their talent soon brought th...

Page, George Bispham, 1870-1948.

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Klauder, Charles Z. (Charles Zeller), 1872-1938

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Charles Zeller Klauder was born in Philadelphia in 1872. In 1887 he began working for the Philadelphia architect T.P. Chandler, and by 1891 he had won the silver medal of the Philadelphia T-Square Club. He worked for various firms such as Wilson Brothers, Walter Cope, and Horace Trumbauer before settling as the chief draftsman for Frank Miles Day and Brother in 1900. The firm's name changed to Charles Z. Klauder in 1927 and remained so until Klauder died in 1938. Klauder, one of the leading arch...

Stewardson and Page.

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Stewardson, Emlyn Lamar, 1863-1936.

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Stewardson, John (American architect, 1858-1896)

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