William E. Dunlap Collection
1921-1957 (bulk 1926-1950)
William Edward Dunlap (1922-1973) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
William E. Dunlap (1922-1973) graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with a degree in architecture in 1947. After joining the Chicago architectural office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in 1951, Dunlap began a prolific design partnership with the firm that lasted until his death in 1973. This collection includes transcripts of class lectures, architectural drawings, and project photographs of design work by architects William E. Dunlap, George Edson Danforth, Charles “Skip” Booher Genther, and Mies van der Rohe.
Related material can also be found in the oral histories of George Danforth and Charles Genther.
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Architectural reprographic prints, graphite drawings, ink drawings, holograph papers, carbon typescript papers, printed papers, photocopies, black and white photographic prints and color photographic prints.