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Wurster and the firm. The assortment encompasses correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, and drawings. The collection encompasses an array of structures, including residential and commercial buildings, as well as expansive planning undertakings like defense housing. Additionally, the archive contains drawings by landscape architect Thomas Church and photographs contributed by Roger Sturtevant for select projects..
193:. His family encouraged him to observe, read and draw but Wurster often admitted later in life, to holding more of an intellectual gift, rather than a drawing gift. As a child, he held a close relationship with his father, a banker who, on bank holidays and weekends, would take Wurster to observe the life of the town to show him how it functioned. This, Wurster later reflected, was to show him the workings, rather than the structures of the city.
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William Wilson Wurster (1895-1973) and the architectural firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. The archive documents Wurster's cooperative partnerships, professional affiliations, and accomplishments, along with
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in 1945, a position he held for five years. During 1949 and 1950, he simultaneously held the chair of the
National Park and Planning Commission. Both Bauer and Wurster withstood accusations of disloyalty from the California
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