Crawford (Rowland Henry) papers, circa 1928-circa 1973

Summary

Title:

Rowland Henry Crawford papers

Dates:

circa 1928-circa 1973

Creators:

Crawford, Rowland Henry, 1902-1973

Extent:

56.5 Linear feet (30 record storage boxes, 5 Flat File Drawers, 11 boxes of rolls)

Language:

Preferred citation:

Rowland Henry Crawford papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Rowland Henry Crawford papers span 56.5 linear feet and date from circa 1928 to circa 1973. The collection consists of architectural drawings and reprographic copies, correspondence, Crawford’s 1961 daily calendar, three-ring binders devoted to particular projects, newspaper clippings, and Crawford’s project files organized by client’s last name/project name. There are a considerable number of architectural drawings, reprographic copies, and correspondence concerning the Times Mirror Building as well as Crawford’s projects dealing with the remodeling or building of high schools and elementary schools in the Los Angeles area.

Biographical / historical:

Architect and artist Rowland Henry Crawford was born October 28, 1902 in Blythe, South Dakota. He was a member of the first architecture class at University of Southern California. After architecture school, Crawford attended the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and subsequently won a two-year scholarship to study painting at the Academy of Rome. Once Crawford’s two year painting scholarship was over, he began to work for Gordon B. Kaufmann’s firm in Los Angeles where he served as the chief architect for the Times Mirror Building and the Santa Anita Race Track. Later in his career, Crawford started his own firm. At this time his work primarily focused on civic and commercial buildings, although he did design some residences. Some of the more prominent buildings include the Times Boys Club, Chatsworth and Crenshaw high school, and the remodeling of the Brown Derby. Crawford was in charge of the master planning for the Beverly Hills Board of Education, he served more than ten years as the chairman of the Bel-air Architectural Supervisory Committee, and on the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Construction Industries Committee. He also founded and was the first president of the University of Southern California’s Architectural Guild. Rowland Henry Crawford died in 1973, at the age of 71.

Custodial history:

Gift of Brian Wooten, 1990.

Physical location:

Boxes 1-29, 37/Mosher - regular 5 Flat File Drawers/ADC - flat files 1 Flat File Drawer/Mosher - drawer number D55 11 Boxes of Rolls/Mosher - rolls (some boxes are numbered and others are not numbered, just labeled Crawford)

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

Gordon B. Kauffman drawings, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

ADC Study Collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Architectural drawings
Reprographic copies

Names:

Crawford, Rowland Henry, 1902-1973

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding aid prepared by Jillian O'Connor, Annie Park, and Chris Marino; Julia Larson (revision)

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.

Date Prepared:

8/30/2012

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-02-07T14:16-0800

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