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Irving D. Moy was a former student of Roland Bockhorst and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972. Moy continued to correspond with Bockhorst until his death in 1995. The Roland Bockhorst Correspondence to Irving D. Moy consists of Bockhorst’s side of the correspondence.

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This small collection is comprised of sheet music and biographical details.

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The Fred R. Hammond Collection includes drawings, photographs, and other images of architectural projects built on the Washington University Campus by the firm of Hammond, Charle, Burns and Le Pere, Architects and Planners, as well as its predecessor firms including Cope and Stewardson. Of particular interest is a notebook of sketches and photographs of gargoyles from across the Washington University Danforth Campus.

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This collection contains the speeches and professional association correspondence of George E. Kassabaum.

Scope and Contents The Arthur Ernst Koelle Papers primarily consists of correspondence to and from Koelle and his parents, Oscar and Virginia, and sister, Ruth, during his travels through France, Spain, Tunisia, Algeria, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, and Scotland in 1925-1926. Also included are two architectural sketchbooks, oversized sketches, and photographs created or taken by Koelle during his travels. Finally included are a small number of photographs of the St. Louis Veiled Prophet Ball dais...

Scope and Contents The collection primarily includes materials related to Emmet Layton’s professional work as a landscape architect in St. Louis, Missouri; his involvement in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); and his tenure as landscape architect at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Of particular interest are files related to the planning and construction of the Coffrin Arboretum at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, for which Layton was a consultant, as well as materials from...

Scope and Contents The Eugene J. Mackey, Jr. Papers consists of Mackey’s original sketches and impressions of France and Italy during six week trip to Europe during the summer of 1958 with his son Gene. As the companions traveled through Belgium, Germany, France and Italy, Mackey sketched his trip instead of using a camera. 55 years later, Gene Mackey organized Mackey’s drawings and published ...

Scope and Contents The Joseph. D. Murphy (JDM) Papers consists of Murphy’s architectural, teaching, research, personal, and other professional and business material. It includes architectural documents and drawings from his time as a student at Ecole des Beaux Arts and his time at Murphy & Mackey. Also included is work Murphy did for the St. Louis City Planning Commission, as a member of the Architectural Institute of America, and as a professor at Washington University. Materials include but are not...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of approximately 15,000 images focusing primarily on European architectural details, topographical views, sculpture, and painting. In addition, there are many photographs of cities and archaeological sites from Egypt, India, Japan, Syria, Turkey, and the former Soviet Republics.The collection features numerous works of many celebrated American and European photographers and photographic editors from the infancy of photography, including:  Leopoldo Alinari,...

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The collection consists of a number of bound volumes which describe Thias' life, teaching activities at Washington University, and architectural career. The collection also includes several folders of Thias' sketches and watercolors. These drawings depict buildings on the Washington University campus, St. Louis scenes, and Missouri scenes.