Scope and Content Note
Primarily architectural drawings by Chloethiel Woodard Smith & Associated Architects for urban planning projects in the Southwest Urban Renewal Area of Washington, D.C. Among designs represented in the archive are Harbour Square and Capitol Park housing developments, Washington Channel Waterfront, and the Washington Channel Bridge. Materials document various phases of the design process, from preliminary sketches to working drawings, and include correspondence and specifications relating to building projects. The archive also includes landscape architecture drawings, engineering drawings, and planning drawings by other creators as well as some architectural drawings done under the earlier firm names of Keyes, Smith, Satterlee & Lethbridge and Satterlee & Smith.
Specific media or processes represented include graphite, ink, diazo print, stat, blueprint, and photomechanical print.
Some ADE UNITs have additional materials to the drawings that are filed separately. If present, these series are noted at the end of the ADE UNIT's summary with the following options: specifications, photographs, and/or miscellaneous supplementary materials. These materials are not item inventoried but can be requested from a librarian while doing research in the Reading Room.