O'Neil Ford collection, 1864-1993.

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O'Neil Ford collection, 1864-1993.

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Papers, plans, photographic prints and negatives, slides, exhibit boards, drawings, and sketches reveal the life and career of O'Neil Ford (1905-1982), a prominent southwestern U.S. architect. The collection demonstrates the origins and practice of Ford's dedication to indigenous architecture, artisanship, preservation of historic structures along with modern design, and his tireless advocacy of education, particularly in the arts.

Architectural records : ca. 8,275 sheets of drawings.Manuscript materials : 54 linear feet of papers and photographic material.

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O'Neil Ford (1905-1982) was a prominent architect in the southwestern United States whose work, dedicated to native architectural forms and hand craftwork, historic preservation, and innovative design, also extended nationally and internationally. Born in Pink Hill, Tex., Otha Neil Ford's early education and employment was informed by the arts-and-crafts movement. When Ford was twelve years old he began to help support his family after his father's death in a railroad ac...

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