Series Description
Boxes 1
I. Personal Papers
n.d., 1929
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains typescript autobiography, photo of Cahill, and a bookplate. The incomplete autobiography primarily discusses his
childhood.
A. Biographical Information
Boxes 1
II. Professional Papers
n.d., 1932
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains articles written by Cahill on the plan for San Francisco and on memorial buildings.
Boxes 2-3
III. Office Records
1889-1917
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs related to Cahill's projects, primarily his funerary architecture.
A. Photographs
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Consists of project photographs, including photographs of Woodlawn Memorial Park, unidentified projects, and others.
B. Clippings and Scrapbooks
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Consists of clippings, photographs, and ephemera--loose or contained within scrapbooks. Includes two volumes of scrapbooks
featuring Cahill’s work, as well as a copy of a third deconstructed scrapbook and the material that was removed from it. Also
includes issues of the
California Architect and Building News that feature the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Competition.
Boxes 1, 4, Flat Files Flat Files 1-4
IV. Project Records
1909-1938
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by project, within subseries.
Series Scope and Content Summary
Contains specifications, correspondence, photographs, and drawings of projects, including the Cypress Abbey Cemetery in San
Francisco, the Diamond Head Cemetery in Honolulu, St. Mary's Cemetery Mausoleum in Sacramento. The only residential project
in the collection is the Skaggs residence in Piedmont (2 photographs). Includes material written and collected by Cahill on
the San Francisco Civic Center, including a 1909 letter of protest sent to the San Francisco Chronicle (but not published)
opposing the opening of the Civic Center design contest to architects worldwide instead of limiting it to west coast architects.
A. Drawings
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Consists of project drawings by Cahill and contributors, including a sketch for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Competition
for the University of California, a sketch of the plan to beautify San Francisco, the I.O.O.F. cemetery buildings in Salinas,
and others.
B. Files
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Consists of documents and specifications for Cahill's projects. Also includes a scrapbook entitled "Pencil, Pen, and Paint"
that contains copies of sketches, drawings and other material relating to Cahill’s projects.
C. Photographs
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Consists of project photographs of Diamond Head Memorial Park in Honolulu, St. Mary's Mausoleum in Sacramento, and the Skaggs'
Residence in Piedmont.
Boxes 1, 5
V. Cahill World Map Company
1913-1933
Series Scope and Content Summary
Consists of brochures and promotional materials related to the company, a three-dimensional octahedral map, and an embossing
stamp.
A. Product Literature
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Contains brochures and promotional materials relating to the Cahill World Map Company. Includes photograph of Cahill demonstrating
his creation.
B. Artifacts
Subseries Scope and Content Summary
Contains butterfly map globe and Cahill''s embossing stamp.
Container List
A. Biographical Infromation
Box 1, Folder 1
Autobiography manuscript
1929
Box 1, Folder 1
Manuscript for
Argonaut article "From the Opera House to the Ocean Beach"
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2
The Architect and Engineer issue featuring Cahill in "Memorial Buildings" article
1932
Box 2, Folder 3
Project Photographs
n.d., 1894, 1911
Box 2, Folder 4
Photographs, Unidentified Projects
n.d.
Box 2, Folder 8
Woodland Memorial Park -- Photographs
n.d.
B. Clippings and Scrapbooks
Box 2, Folder 1
Clippings and Postcards
1911-1916
Box 2, Folder 2
Phoebe Hearst Architectural Competition,
California Architect and Building News, Nov. 1889, Sept. 1899, Dec. 1899 issues
1889, 1899
Box 2, Folder 5
Scrapbook Clippings
1895-1911
Box 2, Folder 6
Scrapbook Photographs
n.d., 1911, 1920
Box 2, Folder 9
"Crematories, Columbariums, etc.: The work of B.J.S. Cahill"
1936
Box 3, Folder 1-3
Work of B.J.S. Cahill Scrapbook Vol. II - Photos, Clippings
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 4-6
Work of B.J.S. Cahill Scrapbook Vol. III - Photos, Clippings
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 4
Miscellaneous Renderings
n.d.
V. Cahill World Map Company, 1913-1933
Box 1, Folder 1
Butterfly Map and Cahill World Map Company Promotional Materials
1913-1933
Cahill Embossing Stamp
n.d.
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