Vernon DeMars collection, 933-2001.

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Vernon DeMars collection, 933-2001.

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The collection is extensive and contains a wide range of materials documenting DeMars' long career as a designer and planner. Includes DeMars' personal papers, records from his private practice and professional career and materials generated by the firms DeMars & Reay, DeMars & Wells, and DeMars & Maletic. Documentation related to his service with the Navy, performance of Native American Dances, and work with the Farm Security Administration and Mutual Security Agency, and tenure as professor at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design are also included. A small number of artworks and photographs by DeMars' wife, Betty Bates DeMars, are also represented.

15 cartons, 16 manuscript boxes, 6 flat boxes, 1 shoebox, 33 tubes, 18 flat file drawers, 6 models.

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Reay, Donald

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Vernon Armand DeMars was born in San Francisco, California, in 1908. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1931. After jobs with the National Park Service and travel in the U.S. and Europe, DeMars worked from 1936- 1942 as district architect for the Farm Security Administration's regional office in San Francisco. In 1939, DeMars co-founded Telesis, a city and regional planning organizatio. He married Betty Bates in the same year, with whom...

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Wells, John G. (John Gaylord), 1821-1880

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Sidener, Jack.

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Maletic, Carl.

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United States. Mutual Security Agency

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