Day and Klauder architectural records, 1895-1958 (bulk 1908-1938).

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Day and Klauder architectural records, 1895-1958 (bulk 1908-1938).

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The collection comprises architectural drawings, photographic materials and other records documenting over 200 buildings and projects designed between 1895-1958 by the architectural firm of Day and Klauder or by their predecessor or successor firms. Predecessor firms represented in the collection are Frank Miles Day and Brother; and Day Brothers and Klauder. Successor firms represented are Charles Z. Klauder, architect; Office of Charles Z. Klauder; and Trautwein & Howard, architects. Projects represented in the collection include private commissions, public buildings, and the firm's extensive work for collegiate institutions. Holdings include designs for Concordia Seminary; Cornell University; Drexel & Company; Violet Oakley; Pennsylvania State University; Princeton University; R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company; St. Paul's School; Trinity Church, Wilmington; University of Chicago; University of Colorado at Boulder; University of Delaware; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; Wellesley College; Samuel P. Wetherill (now the Philadelphia Art Alliance); and Yale University. The bulk of the original drawings and prints in the collection were received from John Lloyd, who acquired the office of Trautwein and Howard in the early 1960s. During 1985-1991 he distributed a large number of original architectural drawings to original clients or current owners of the firm's built works. Lloyd gave to the University of Pennsylvania the drawings for buildings at the University, as well as the remaining drawings and other materials he was not able to distribute. An inventory, dated 1958, of drawings held by the office lists drawings done by Klauder himself. Only one of these is found in this collection, an original perspective rendering for the Concordia Seminary, signed and dated by Klauder. The largest portion of the collection consists of photographic materials (photoprints, cyanotype prints and photonegatives, both film and glass plate) which comprehensively document buildings and projects from 1908 to 1938. In addition to a wide array of images documenting the built works, the collection includes a large number of glass plate negatives of the firm's presentation drawings, chiefly renderings by Charles Z. Klauder. These negatives are particularly important because many original drawings by Klauder are not found in this collection and may have been lost or destroyed. The very limited project and office files include an extensive index to the firm's projects and job numbers. Personal materials related to Charles Z. Klauder are limited to photographic documentation of his travel sketches 1895-1925 and photographic documentation of a model built by the architect, ca. 1925. This collection contains no personal materials related to Frank Miles Day. These are found in the Frank Miles Day Collection (Collection #059). This collection also contains documentation for two buildings by Frank Furness (Furness, Evans and Company): Recitation Hall, University of Delaware, 1891 (photoprints); and The National Bank of the Republic, 1883-1884 (photoprints and survey drawings).

Architectural drawings 918 sheets : various media.Photographic materials 936 photoprints, 392 photonegatives, 1843 cyanotype prints.Boxed files 0.5 cubic ft.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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