Inventory of the Harold Stump Papers, 1922-1997
Processed by Dayna Holz.
Environmental Design Archives
College of Environmental Design
230 Wurster Hall #1820
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-1820
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Email: archives@socrates.berkeley.edu
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the Harold Stump Papers, 1922-1997
Collection number: 1999-7
Environmental Design Archives
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Environmental Design Archives
- College of Environmental Design
- 230 Wurster Hall #1820
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, California, 94720-1820
- Phone: (510) 642-5124
- Fax: (510) 642-2824
- Email: archives@socrates.berkeley.edu
- URL: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/
- Processed by:
- Dayna Holz
- Date Completed:
- July 2003
- Encoded by:
- Environmental Design Archives staff
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Harold Stump papers,
Date (inclusive): 1922-1997
Collection number: 1999-7
Creator:
Stump, Harold, 1905-1996
Extent:
5 cartons, 1 flat box
Repository:
Environmental Design Archives. College of Environmental Design.
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California
Abstract: Harold Stump (1905-1996) taught architecture at the University of California, Berkeley from 1939-1972. Stump traveled extensively
through Asia, Africa, and Europe and photographed architectural monuments, ancient and modern. The Stump papers consist of
correspondence, research files, writings, faculty administrative documents, and photographs relating primarily to Stump's
teaching career at UC Berkeley's Department of Architecture and College of Environmental Design. Of interest is his collection
of correspondence to and from prominent architects and theorists pertaining to architecture and aesthetics.
Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Harold Stump Papers, (1999-7), Environmental Design Archives. College of
Environmental Design. University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, California.
Acquisition Information
This collection was acquired in 1999.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Architecture -- Study and teaching.
Architecture -- Study and teaching -- California -- Berkeley.
Architects -- Travel.
Architectural photography.
University of California, Berkeley -- School of Architecture.
Mendelsohn, Erich, -- 1887-1953.
Gropius, Walter, -- 1883-1969.
Leger, Fernand, -- 1881-1955.
Biographical Note
Harold Stump (1905-1996)
Harold Andrew Stump was born on March 3, 1905 on a farm outside Bodega Bay, the third child of Minnie (Ruth W. Haub) and John
A. Stump. After the death of her husband, Minnie Stump moved with her young children, Vera, John, and Harold, to Santa Rosa
where she supported the family by giving piano lessons. Around 1922 the family moved to 50 Harrison Avenue, Sausalito, which
remained the family home even after Minnie's death. Stump attended the University of California at Berkeley where he participated
in student dramatic productions by constructing sets and acting. He graduated in 1926 with an A.B. in architecture. For the
next four years he worked as a draftsman in the San Francisco architectural office of Kent and Haas. In 1931 he traveled to
Europe to study the works of ancient and modern architects and painters, returning in 1932 to work for various architects.
Upon his return, Stump studied French, mathematics, and education at UC Extension where he earned a secondary teaching credential.
In 1933 he began teaching at Fremont Union High School in Sunnyvale; during the summers he worked as a draftsman in the office
of William Wilson Wurster.
In 1939 Harold was appointed a lecturer in architecture at UC Berkeley. In 1941 he enrolled in the master of arts program
in art and French at Mills College. There he was appointed assistant to the French abstract painter Fernand Leger, acting
as his interpreter for the summer program. He entered the academic ladder at UC Berkeley as an instructor in 1942, rising
through the ranks and reaching that of professor in 1968. In 1969, as a Fulbright scholar, he taught at the Black Sea Technical
University in Trabzon, Turkey, and later conducted seminars at the American University of Beirut. In 1972 he joined the ranks
of professors emeriti. After his retirement he taught again at the American University at Beirut. The eruption of civil disorder
in Lebanon at the close of 1976 ended his teaching career.
Interested in aesthetics, art, and architecture, Stump began a research program in 1944 on the interrelation of painting,
sculpture, and building by initiating correspondence with painters Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Lazlo Moholy Nagy, and Amedee
Ozenfant, and architects Eric Mendelsohn, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others.
Though Stump neither summarized the data he had gathered nor published his conclusions, the research enriched his teaching.
Stump traveled extensively during summers and on sabbatical leaves, visiting Mexico, Central America, Europe, Russia, Northern
Africa, Ethiopia, Greece, Turkey, and the Near East. Throughout his travels, Stump photo-documented thousands of western European,
African, and Near Eastern architectural monuments, ancient and modern.
Stump died of Alzheimer's disease on September 7, 1996.
Note
Sources:
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"Harold A. Stump, Architecture: Berkeley."
1996, University of California: In Memoriam.
(viewed 28 May, 2003 at http://dynaweb.oac.cdlib.org:8088/dynaweb/uchist/public/inmemoriam/inmemoriam1996/3489#X)
Scope and Contents Note
The Harold Stump papers are organized into two series: Personal Papers and Faculty Papers. The collection consists of correspondence,
research files, writings, faculty administrative documents, and photographs relating primarily to Stump's teaching career
at UC Berkeley's Department of Architecture and College of Environmental Design from 1939 to his retirement in 1972. Also
included are a large number of personal and professional letters concerning research, travels, and UC Berkeley departmental
policies and activities.
The bulk of the Personal Papers consists of correspondence to Stump and includes letters from Stump to his siblings during
travels abroad. Student work includes writings, drawings, and academic records. Also included are travel records, personal
and family photographs, datebooks from 1969-1992, and information relating to the Stump Foundation's proposed publication
of writings by and about Stump.
Faculty Papers consist of administrative materials from UC Berkeley including correspondence, policy development, reports,
course development, scholarships, and salary information. Course materials document both Stump's teaching career from Fremont
High School and his architecture classes at UC Berkeley including lecture notes from several presentations. Research and
reference files relate to Stump's extensive research on Ethiopia, various writings on artists and architects, and his research
during the 1940s on the relationship between architecture and aesthetics. Of interest is his collection of correspondence
to and from prominent architects and theorists pertaining to architecture and aesthetics in English and French. Correspondents
include Hans Albers, Marie-Anne Febvre (working for Le Courbusier), Walter Gropius, Fernand Leger, Eric Mendelsohn, Lazlo
Moholy-Nagy (of the Chicago School of Design), Amedee Ozenfant, Theophile Robert, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd
Wright.
Also included in Faculty Papers are some students' written work, documents relating to Stump's promotion to full professor,
records and reports of sabbatical travel and research from 1952-1953, 1960-1961, and 1969-1970, and documentation of a Fulbright
scholarship sponsored teaching assignment in Turkey in 1967. A number of photographs, negatives, and slides documenting
architecture around the world are also in the collection, supplementing the donation of more than 30,000 of Stump's slides
to UC Berkeley's Architecture Visual Resources Library.
Related Collections
Harold Stump World Architecture Slide Collection. Architecture Visual Resources Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Henry Lagorio Papers (2003-6), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Series Description
I.
PERSONAL PAPERS, 1922-1997
Physical Description:
Boxes 1-2
Series Scope and Content Summary
Personal Papers consist primarily of correspondence and include family and personal photographs, datebooks from 1969-1992,
and student work. Travel records include passports and immunization records along with receipts and worldwide hotel information.
Papers of the Stump Foundation include the manuscript for an unpublished book of writings by and about Stump.
II.
FACULTY PAPERS, 1931-1979
Physical Description:
Boxes 3-5
Series Scope and Content Summary
The Faculty Papers series documents activities and policies of UC Berkeley's Department of Architecture and College of Environmental
Design, primarily during the 1950s and 1960s. Course materials range from French and math classes at Fremont High School
in the 1930s to architecture exams of the 1960s. Several lectures are documented through Stump's hand-written notes. Research
and reference files include clippings and articles, writings, and correspondence as well as hundreds of pages of hand-written
research notes on a variety of topics relating to architecture around the world. Promotional materials consist primarily
of a series of four portfolios used by Stump for his activity review and include correspondence and letters of recommendation
for Stump's promotion to full professor. Documentation of his sabbaticals include reports to W. Wurster and writings on his
architectural research in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Stump's service on the California State Board of Architectural Examiners
from 1957-1960 is documented with receipts, notes, and correspondence. Most photographs are of unidentified buildings, but
there is also a series of architectural travel prints separated by individual country.
C. Research and Reference
G. California State Board of Architectural Examiners
H. Photographs (Prints, Negatives, Slides)
Container List
SERIES I: PERSONAL PAPERS
High School Year Book, 1922
Publication Materials, 1997
SERIES II: FACULTY PAPERS
Fremont High School, 1935-1939
Box 4
C. Research and Reference
Correspondence - Architecture and Aesthetics Research
Correspondence/Letters of Reference, 1963-1968
Modern Architecture in Europe and Asia, 1952-1953
Monuments of Nubia, 1960-1961
Mali/Ethiopia/North Africa/Middle East, 1969-1970
Fulbright - Trabzon, Turkey, 1966-1967
Box 5
G. California State Board of Architectural Examiners
Correspondence, Notes, Invoices, 1957-1960
Architect/Planner Job Descriptions - State of California, 1959
Box 5
H. Photographs (Prints, Negatives, Slides)
