Hope Gladding Slide Collection on the History of Design
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UC Berkeley. College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center
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Title: Hope Gladding Slide Collection on the History of Design
Dates: 1921-1957
Collection Number: AVRL 1984-1
Creator/Collector:
Gladding, Hope Meldeau
Extent: 6000 slides in 30 cases.
Repository:
UC Berkeley. College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center
Berkeley, California 94720-1820
Abstract: The Hope Gladding Slide Collection on the History of Design primarily covers the history of Interior Design and American Decorative
Arts
Language of Material: English
Collection open for research. Collection is unprocessed and no collection guides are available.
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Hope Gladding Slide Collection on the History of Design. UC Berkeley. College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center
Donated to the Department of Architecture in 1984 by Professor Emerita Lucretia Nelson, conservator for Professor Emerita
Hope Gladding.
Biography/Administrative History
Hope Meldeau Gladding, 1889-1987 was Professor of Decorative Arts, Emerita, at UC Berkeley. She graduated from the Rhode Island
School of Design, and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1921 Professor
Gladding joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley to give courses in theory of design and color in the
Department of Household Art. Gladding continued in this department for 36 years, taking her turn as chairman, attaining full
professorship and retiring in 1957. Gladding built two distinguished courses, Great Periods of Interior Design and American
Decorative Arts. She was an accomplished photographer, and enlivened these courses with slides she made on her travels. This
collection consists of these slides.
Scope and Content of Collection
Hope Gladding Slide Collection on the History of Design consists of approximately 6000 35mm slides depicting decorative arts,
architecture, and interior design subjects. The imagery depicted spans the history of material culture approximately the Renaissance
to the late 20th century.
Decorative arts--19th century--History.
Decorative arts--20th century--History.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Decorative Arts
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Design
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Household Art
slides (photographs)