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• Fonds: Myron Goldsmith fonds, 1933-1996
•    Series: Professional Activities - Architecture, 1947-1996
•      Sub-series: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - San Francisco, 1955-1962
•        Sub-series: Textual Documents and Photographs, 1955-1962

People

• Myron Goldsmith (creator)
• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (architectural firm)
• Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

Title

Textual Documents and Photographs

Dates of creation

1955-1962

Level of archival description

File 1

Extent and Medium

• 13 files of textual records
• 8 files of photographic material
• 2 photographs
• 2 ring binders
• 2 brochures
• 1 reprographic copy
• 1 drawing

Scope and Content

Papers, some drawings and photographs mostly related to Goldsmith's early projects for SOM in the San Francisco office (1955-1958), including Goldsmith and James Ferris collaborations for the United Air Lines hangars, Atlas Bridge, and an entry for the Enrico Fermi Memorial Competition.

Reference Number

AP032.S2.SS1.D1

Arrangement

The records in this sub-series have been arranged by material type.

Inventory

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216409
  • Title: United Exchange Building, Seattle memorandum and building planning service brochure
  • Dates of creation: 1950
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-001

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216410
  • Title: Recreation Centre, Portland, Oregon structural - economic studies, 2 booklets and loose page of calculations
  • Dates of creation: 1957
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-002

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216411
  • Title: Correspondence and papers
  • Dates of creation: 1957
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-003

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216412
  • Title: Sketches, notes (probably concerning United Airlines buildings) and ephemera
  • Dates of creation: 1957
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-004

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216413
  • Title: United Airlines Service Centre, San Francisco International Airport publicity brochure mock-up
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-005

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216414
  • Title: Sketch for United Airlines maintenance hangar
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 drawing(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 drawings

  Technique and media:

  Graphite on vellum

  Physical Description:

  matted

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-017S-01

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216415
  • Title: Calculations for United Air Lines hangar, notes, articles on techniques and materials
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 ring binder(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Physical Description:

  hardcover

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-06

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216416
  • Title: The Golden Gateway
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  proposal by SOM for the development of a public garage and residential area in San Francisco

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 brochure(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Document Type:

  • brochure

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-016S-08

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216417
  • Title: Squaw Valley Winter Olympic Games Facility
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  sketches, calculations, correspondence and structural consultant drawings

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Technique and media:

  Diazotype

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-007

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216419
  • Title: Squaw Valley Winter Olympic Games Facility
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  sketches

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 drawing(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 2 reprographic copies

  Technique and media:

  Diazotypes

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-007S-05

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216420
  • Title: Atlas Cement Company Bridge
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  correspondence

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-009

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216421
  • Title: Atlas Cement Company Bridge
  • Form: drawings
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 reprographic copy(ies)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 reprographic copies

  Technique and media:

  Diazotype

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-010

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216422
  • Title: Atlas Cement Company Bridge
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  sketches, correspondence and notes

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-068T-011

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216423
  • Title: "Bridge of Tomorrow" advertizement
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 photograph(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 photographs

  Technique and media:

  Gelatin silver print

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-016S-09

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216424
  • Title: SOM expense account forms, receipts and cancelled cheques
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-069T-012

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216425
  • Title: Enrico Fermi Memorial Competition
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  Goldsmith - Ferris proposal typescripts

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-069T-013

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216426
  • Title: Enrico Fermi Memorial Competition
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  Goldsmith - Ferris brochure

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 brochure(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Document Type:

  • brochure

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-016S-10

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216427
  • Title: Cost estimates for United Air Lines executive office building and training centre
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  cost estimates for United Air Lines executive office building and training centre, Elk Grove, Illinois, product brochures and building codes

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 ring binder(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Physical Description:

  hardcover

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-069T-014

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216428
  • Title: Office memos, news bulletin, correspondence, notes, product brochure, map and postcard
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Technique and media:

  Photoprint, diazotype and ephemera

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-015

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216429
  • Title: Notes
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Technique and media:

  Gelatin silver print

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-016

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216430
  • Title: Site plan model (unidentified project) and scenes of construction materials production (UAL hangar ?)
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Technique and media:

  Gelatin silver prints

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-017

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216431
  • Title: Dance Hangar photos
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  3 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 1 file

  Technique and media:

  Gelatin silver prints

  Dimensions:

  photographic materials: 9,84 x 12,38 cm

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-018

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216435
  • Title: Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  freeway approach and interchange

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 5 photographs

  Technique and media:

  5 gelatin silver prints and envelope

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-019

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216440
  • Title: Lake Point Towers apartments, Chicago
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  interior and plan

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 3 photographs

  Technique and media:

  3 chromogenic colour prints

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-020

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216443
  • Title: University of California, Berkley, Radiation Laboratory
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 4 photographs

  Technique and media:

  4 gelatin silver prints

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-021

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  • Reference Number: ARCH216447
  • Title: View of Federal Centre in Chicago, Power House in Wisconsin
  • Form: photographs
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  view of Federal Centre in Chicago, Power House in Wisconsin, construction photos, views of Hartford Building in Atlanta, contact prints of unidentified model of a bridge and periodical clippings

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 8 photographic materials

  Technique and media:

  8 gelatin silver prints and negatives

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  32-070T-022

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  • Reference Number: ARCH255266
  • Title: Correspondence, journals, reports
  • Dates of creation: 1953-1960
  • Form: textual records
  • Catalogued items within this file 0

  People:

  • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (architectural firm)
  • Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)

  Description:

  correspondence, Skidmore, Owings & Merril "Report on the Use of Glass for the United Airlines-Plot 4 Hangar, San Francisco Airport" (with photographs and handcoloured plates) (1956), "The Journal of Civil Aviation Administration" (September-October 1960), and "The Design and Construction of the British European Airways Hangars at London Airport, with Particular Reference to Prestressed Concrete" (1953)

  Quantity / Object type:

  1 file(s)

  Extent and Medium:

  • 0.01 l.m. of textual records

  Document Type:

  • correspondence

  Credit line:

  Myron Goldsmith fonds
  Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
  Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
  

  Folder Number:

  002