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Published Biographical References

  • Bruce, William George. School Architecture: A Handy Manual for the Use of Architects and School Authorities. 4th ed. Milwaukee: Johnson Service Co., c1910. (Chester High School, 68)
     
  • Davis, Seymour. A Winter Journey to the Western Islands: Madeira, Gibralter, Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey, Greece. Philadelphia: 1909.
     
  • "Detached Cottage for State Industrial School for Girls, Beloit, Michigan." American Architect and Building News 48 (4 May 1895): 52, plate 1010.
     
  • Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and William Seale. Temples of Democracy. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.
     
  • "Hotel at Mesilla Park, N.M." American Architect and Building News 36 (23 January 1893): 61, plate 839.
     
  • Letter from Frank Miles Day to Cass Gilbert (3 July 1896), Minnesota Historical Society (Photocopy in Seale Papers at the Athenaeum and in the Athenaeum biographical files).
     
  • Obituary: American Art Annual 20 (19223/24): 261.
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders Guide 11 (8 July 1896): 551.
     
  • "Unitarian Church, Topeka, Kan." American Architect and Building News 33 (29 August 1891): 135, plate 818.
     
  • Vogel, F. Rudolf. Das Amerikanische Haus. Berlin: E. Wasmuth, 1910. (Hotel Merilla-Park, New Mexico, p. 260, 264)
     
  • Wallace, Douglass W. "Topeka, Prairie Capital." Topeka, KS: Historic Topeka, Inc., 1985.
     
  • Wills Warming & Ventilating Co. Warming, Ventilation and Sanitation of Public School Buildings Philadelphia: 1900? (Slatington High School, p. 49)
     

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Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

  • First Baptist Church Archives, Philadelphia. (Letter from Davis to Albert Hill, secretary of the Building Committee, soliciting the First Baptist Church commission)
     
  • Pennsylvania State University Archives (Construction records and photographs for the Carnegie Building, 1903; photographs for the McAllister Building, 1904)
     
  • Seale Papers, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. (Photocopy of letter from Frank Miles Day to Cass Gilbert, 3 July 1896)
     

 

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