Harold Barrows Bursley papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0110
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of field notebooks kept by an associate of and successor to landscape architect Earle Sumner Draper. Also contains data from published sources and the firm's (Draper and Associates) early projects, including cost estimates, manpower and material requirements, design principles for cemeteries and golf courses, and general descriptions of projects in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and West Virginia and biographical information.
Dates
- 1913 - 1931
Creator
- Bursley, Harold B. (Harold Barrows) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Copyright
Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.
Biographical / Historical
Bursley was a landscape architect, associate and successor to Earle Sumner Draper and part of the firm, Draper and Associates. Harold B. Bursley earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; moved to Charlotte, N.C., in 1919 and became chief associate of Earle Sumner Draper, then field supervisor for the Myers Park suburb in Charlotte. Later, Bursley served as head of Draper and Associates, a landscape architecture firm in the city. He was called to work in partnership with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration as a designer and planner for Greenbelt, Maryland. Bursley worked with Hale J. Walker, another landscape architect on the Greenbelt project. Bursley was born in 1891, in Lynn, Massachusetts; died 1967.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 document box (shared))
Language
English
Overview
Consists of notebooks and filing cards documenting several of Bursley's projects, including mill villages, golf courses and cemeteries. There is also a biographical sketch summarizing Bursley's life and career.
Arrangement
Four folders arranged as follows: Biographical sketch; Notebook I: 1-4; Notebook II: 1-2; and Notebook III: 1-4. Followed by a later accession of Lefax filing cards and notebooks in chronological order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Copy of originals in possession of Harold Bursley Jr. photocopied 1985.
Creator
- Bursley, Harold B. (Harold Barrows) (Person)
- Title
- Papers of Harold Barrows Bursley
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte Repository
Contact:
Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte 28223 United Stated
spec-coll@uncc.edu
Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte 28223 United Stated
spec-coll@uncc.edu