If you are researching an architect who is not at Cal Poly, you will want to determine where that architect's papers are located. Locations vary, sometimes the architect and their family may have their records, and sometimes an archive holds their papers. To check if an archives has their records:
- Try searching the Architect's name + "archives"
- Look on the wikipedia page for the architect and see if the archives is listed at the bottom of the page
- If using secondary sources, look at the footnotes or citations area to see which archives the author cites.
Finding digitized materials
- If you find the architect's records at an institution, check to see if the institution has digital collections.
- Try searching the architect's name + "digital collections"
- If images are used in a book/article/webpage, check the credits and citations to see where they got the images from
- If the items you are looking for are not digitized and if they are at an institution, you can reach out to determine their policies for providing digital copies of materials.
Some architectural records may be found in other collections than the architect, such as:
- The client's archives (including institutions such as Cal Poly)
- Photographer's archives
- Researchers' archives
- Regional archives
- Permitting agencies
Use a Google Advanced Search
Using Google Advanced Search with specific search terms can help yield more focused results. Within Advanced Search, use the "all of these words" and the "This exact word or phrase" to enter keywords for your subject, for example:
- all these words: Kauffman House
- any of these words: archives manuscripts collection correspondence scrapbooks sources letters
Also try:
- all of these words: Kauffman House
- this exact word or phrase: "Archival collections" "manuscript collections"
Also try (separately):
- all these words: Kauffman house WITH this exact word or phrase: finding aid
- all these words: Kauffman house EAD