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This collection includes architecural drawings of Washington University's Danforth Campus, West Campus, and Olin Library.

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This collection covers information about the cyclotron built on the Danforth Campus in 1940 and subsequent redesigns of the cyclotron. It also includes information on the preliminary work towards the Positron Emission Transaxial Tomography Scanners (commonly abbreviated PET) at the School of Medicine. The collection does not include specific information about the cyclotrons at the School of Medicine.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of original drawings of Eads Bridge from two separate firms: American Bridge Company and Terminal Railroad Association.In total, Washington University holds 663 original drawings of the Eads Bridge: 570 drawings from the Terminal Railroad Association and 93 additional drawings from the American Bridge Company. A list of the 93 American Bridge drawings are available ...

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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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The collection includes material relating to the Hilltop Campus Architectural Competition of 1899, including background information and competition drawings.

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 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 ...

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The collection includes material relating to the Mudd/Eliot Hall architectural competition of 1965, including background information and competition drawings.

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...

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The collection includes material relating to the Olin Library architectural competition of 1956, including background information and competition drawings.