Garrett Eckbo collection, 1933-1990.

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Garrett Eckbo collection, 1933-1990.

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Contains student projects including "Contempoville," his Master's Thesis at Harvard, faculty papers, correspondence, scrapbooks, consulting material, drawings, promotional literature for Eckbo's firms, photographs, slides, research notes, articles, lectures, manuscripts, illustrations, and subject files. Some of his projects include Farm Security Administration housing, Ladera, CA, Mar Vista Homes, Ambassador College, University of California campuses, the University of New Mexico; and the ALCOA Forecast Garden.

67 cartons, 16 boxes, 1 half box, 6 card file boxes, 21 flat file drawers, 1 tube.

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Eckbo & Williams.

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Garrett Eckbo & Associates

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Eckbo, Dean, Austin & Williams

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Eckbo, Royston & Williams.

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United States. Federal Works Agency. Division of Defense Housing.

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EckboKay Associates.

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Online Archive of California

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Eckbo, Garrett

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Garrett Eckbo studied landscape architecture at UC Berkeley graduating in 1935. He then attended Harvard University's Graduate School of Design where with classmates Dan Kiley and James Rose led the "Harvard Revolution," ushering in the modern period in landscape design. Following graduation in 1938, Eckbo worked as a landscape architect for Norman Bel Geddes on the General Motors Pavilion for the 1939 World's Fair in New York and for the Farm Security Administration. Eckbo taught at the Univers...

United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...