William Hersey and John Kyrk collection

William P. (Bill) Hersey and John Kyrk worked together as architectural illustrators from the early 1970s until Hersey's death in 1989. Based in California, the two traveled across the United States, often in a Volkswagen bus they operated as a mobile studio, producing contracted renderings for architects, firms, and developers. In addition to architectural drawings, the collection includes other visual material like travel sketches and botanical illustrations, fliers, rubbings, and wood engravings as well as manuscript ephemera such as diary snippets, printed parables, and poetry.