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A

  • Abele, Julian Francis
  • Adam, Robert
  • Alikakos, George C.
  • Allen, William Steven, Jr.
  • Audsley, George Ashdown

B

  • Bacon, Edmund Norwood
  • Baker & Dallett
  • Ballinger Company
  • Batcheler, Penelope Hartshorne
  • Bendiner, Alfred
  • Bernheimer, Betty Ray
  • Bitter, Karl Theodore Francis
  • Blount, Gilbert R.
  • Bower, John Arnold, Sr.
  • Bronx Parkway Commission
  • Buchman & Kahn
  • Butterfield, William

C

  • Canton Christian College
  • Carroll, Grisdale & Van Alen
  • Caumette, François
  • Cautley, Marjorie Sewell
  • Chambers, Sir William
  • Chandler, Theophilus Parsons, Jr.
  • Clemmer, Leon
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  • Cole, E.B.
  • Colish, Aaron
  • Conklin, George W.
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  • Copeland, Lee G.
  • Cret - Clippings
  • Cret, Paul Philippe

D

  • Daub, George
  • Day & Klauder
  • Day, Frank Miles
  • Day, Kenneth Mackenzie
  • Day, Norman
  • Debret, François
  • DiNardo, Antonio
  • Donohoe, Victoria
  • Doshi, Balkrishna Vithaldas
  • Drake, Lawrence
  • Dumont, Jacques
  • Durfee, William Franklin

E

  • Eberson, John
  • Ellett, Thomas Harlan
  • Evans, Allen
  • Evans, John Lane
  • Eyre, Wilson, Jr.

F

  • Falck, Dyer Alfred Lindsay
  • Ferriss, Hugh
  • Feustmann, Maurice Mayer
  • Fielding, Mantle
  • Frascari, Marco
  • Fredenthal, Robinson
  • Fuller, R. Buckminster
  • Furness - Arcade Building
  • Furness - Girard Trust Building
  • Furness - University of Pennsylvania Library
  • Furness - Wilmington Station

G

  • Geddes, Brecher, Qualls & Cunningham
  • Geerlings, Gerald Kenneth
  • Gilchrist, Edmund Beaman
  • Goldberg, Steven
  • Gray, Eileen
  • Gréber, Jacques
  • Grisdale, John Thomas
  • Guise, David
  • Gutkind, Erwin Anton

H

  • Halprin, Lawrence
  • Hanna, Robert Mitchell
  • Harris, Britton
  • Hassinger, Herman
  • Hirzel, Charles Koch
  • Hood, Raymond Mathewson
  • Hough, Charles Shoemaker
  • Hough, William Jarrett Hallowell
  • Hutton, Addison

I

  • Isham, Norman Morrison
  • Isthmian Canal Commission

J

  • Johansen, John MacLane

K

  • Kahn - Bernie Cleff
  • Kahn - Campidoglio Drawing
  • Kahn - Esther Kahn
  • Kahn - Fanny Seligman
  • Kahn - First Unitarian Church
  • Kahn - Fisher House
  • Kahn - James F. Williamson
  • Kahn - Kimbell Art Museum
  • Kahn - Mildred Schmertz
  • Kahn - Richard Saul Wurmann
  • Kahn - Sue Ann Kahn
  • Kahn - Swetik Korzeniewski
  • Kahn, Louis I.
  • Kieran Timberlake
  • Klauder - Woodrow Wilson House
  • Kling - Nicholson House
  • Knowles, Brigitte L. & John Christopher
  • Knowles, James Thomas, Sr.
  • Kohn Pederson Fox - Shanghai Tower
  • Komendant, August E.
  • Koyl, George Simpson
  • Kreier, George J. Jr.

L

  • La France, Rollin R.
  • Laird, Warren Powers
  • Lawrie, Lee O.
  • Lawson, John & Lorna Katz-Lawson
  • Le Corbusier - Lecture Sketches
  • Le Ricolais, Georges Robert
  • Leavitt, David L.
  • Levinson, Joel
  • Lewis, George Mifflin Dallas
  • Lloyd, John Frederick
  • Lobell, Mimi
  • Longstreth, Thaddeus

M

  • Mansell, T. Norman
  • Martin, Stewart, Noble & Class
  • McGoodwin, Robert Rodes
  • McHarg, Ian L.
  • Mellor, Meigs & Howe
  • Mendham, John Bernard
  • Mertins, Detlef
  • Mesnard, Jules-Auguste
  • Meyers, Marshall David
  • Michener - Le Corbusier Sketches
  • Mitchell/Giurgola - New York Office
  • Mitchell/Giurgola - Philadelphia Office
  • Montgomery & Bishop
  • Moore, Charles
  • Myers, Hyman and Sandra

N

  • Nakashima - Shahn House
  • Nelson, Paul Daniel
  • Nesfield & Shaw
  • Nicholais, John
  • Nichols, Minerva Parker
  • Nolen, John

O

  • Oakes, Earle D.
  • Oakley, Thornton
  • Okie, Richardson Brognard
  • Olin, Laurie
  • Oshiver, Samuel Israel

P

  • Panfili, Pio
  • Pattison, Harriet
  • Patton, George Erwin
  • Peabody & Stearns - Biddle Residence
  • Peck, Frederick William Gunster
  • Perkins, George Holmes
  • Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
  • Philadelphia City Hall
  • Philadelphia City Planning Commission
  • Pohl, George
  • Polk, David C.S.
  • Price, Beryl
  • Price, Llewellyn R.
  • Price, William L.

R

  • Raje, Anant D.
  • Rapkin, Chester
  • Raymond - Carson House
  • Raymond - Masanori Sugiyama
  • Raymond - Stone House
  • Raymond, Antonin and Noémi Pernessin
  • Register, Henry Bartol
  • Reinhold - Buchanan Residence
  • Renard, Jean Augustin
  • Rhodes, William and Sally
  • Rice, Norman
  • Richards, Thomas Webb
  • Robertson, Daniel
  • Romañach, Mario Jose

S

  • Sandby, Thomas
  • Sauer, Louis
  • Savery, Scheetz & Gilmour
  • Scarpa, Carlo
  • Schlesinger, Frank
  • Schmertz, Mildred
  • Seeler, Edgar Viguers
  • Shay, Howell Lewis
  • Shepheard, Sir Peter Faulkner
  • Silverman & Levy - S.S. Neuman Residence
  • Society Hill
  • Stanton, William Macy
  • Sternfeld, Harry
  • Stonorov, Oskar Gregory
  • Stupplebeem, David

T

  • Teitelman, Edward Albert
  • Thalheimer, Jack
  • Thomas, Marianna
  • Thomas, Martin & Kirkpatrick
  • Tilden, Register & Pepper
  • Todd, Thomas A.
  • Traymore Hotel
  • Trumbauer - Wasserman House
  • Tyng, Anne Griswold

U

  • Ueland & Junker
  • University of Pennsylvania - Buildings and Grounds
  • University of Pennsylvania - Bulletin
  • University of Pennsylvania - Comparative Study of Philadelphia Rowhouses
  • University of Pennsylvania - GSFA Chinese Students
  • University of Pennsylvania - Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
  • University of Pennsylvania - Morris Arboretum

V

  • Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin
  • Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
  • Vermont Marble Company
  • Villain, Edouard-Auguste
  • Vollmer, Roy

v

  • vanden Heuvel, William

W

  • Watson & Huckel
  • Weinbrenner, Friedrich
  • Weise, Frank
  • White Tower
  • White, Arthur Blose
  • White, Stanford
  • Wilcots, Henry
  • Willing, Charles
  • Winslow, Philip N.
  • Withers, Frederick Clarke
  • Woolmington, Clarence Hassard
  • Wormann, Hans Norbert
  • Wright - Publicker House
  • Wyatt, Lewis William
  • Wyatt, Thomas Henry

Y

  • Yang, Ting Pao
  • Yarnall, Richard Ashbridge
  • Yellin, Samuel
  • Yoshiko, Godai

Z

  • Zahn - Roberto Burle Marx
  • Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
Color slide showing interior of house with large windows and wood paneling
Polk, David C.S.

David C.S. Polk Collection (318), Architect, 1931-2007

David C.S. Polk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a career in architecture and graduated in 1956. In 1959, after a stint in the U.S. Army, and about one year in independent practice, Polk joined the office of Louis Kahn.  During his time working with Louis Kahn (1959-1968), Polk worked on the Dominican Mother House, The Kansas City Office Tower, Broadway Office Tower, and initial designs for the Kimbell Art Museum. Polk established his own office in 1968 before forming a partnership with Linda O'Gwynn in 1988. Polk resumed independent practice in 1993 continuing until his death.

This collection contains drawings, papers, and photographic materials related to David C.S. Polk's architectural and teaching career (1956-2002). The drawings, approximately 680 in total, represent his architectural work mainly in Philadelphia and the surrounding area and date from the early 1960s to 2001. The papers detail his teaching at the University of Pennsylvania from the 1960s through the 1990s, and the photographic materials contain slides and prints pertaining to architectural projects as well as portraits and travel slides.

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