Collection search - [Student drawings by T. Dunlop Rankin along with drawings pertaining to various residential, government and religious projects] [architectectural drawing, technical drawing]

Accession consists of drawings produced by Rankin while he was a student at Glasgow School of Architecture (1902-1906). These include drawings pertaining to the order of columns, the Faculty Hall in St. Georges Place, Alms House, Blackader's Crypt in Glasgow Cathedral and Falkland Palace. Accession also includes later drawings pertaining to private residences and St. Matthias Church (Westmount, P.Q.) produced by Rankin while employed by Ross & MacFarlane, architects (Montreal) as well as drawings pertaining to government projects produced for the federal Department of Public Works. These latter projects included a post office building (Barrie, Ont.), furniture for the Citadel (Quebec City, P.Q.) and the Dominion Archives building (Ottawa, Ont.), a proposed Memorial Gate (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) and an interprovincial bridge (Hawkesbury, Ont). Accession is also accompanied by one box (11 binders) of photoreproductions from architectural magazines.

Architectural drawings include 35 pencil, 6 pencil, ink & watercolour, 6 pencil & watercolour, 6 ink (3 on linen), 1 pencil & pencil crayon, 1 ink & watercolour, 1 pencil & ink on linen, 23 blueprints and 3 photoreproductions (on 5 sheets).

Most items have been backed with cardboard or stock to reinforce the fragile nature of the drawings.

Accession was donated in 1980 by Keith Rankin of Ottawa, son of T. Dunlop Rankin.

Accession is accompanied by one box containing 11 small binders (355 leaves) of photoreproductions from the Pencil Point Series and from The American Architect and Architecture (1932-1936). The subject of the excerpts are designs for residences, furniture, gates and fences and interior design details such as moldings and cornices.

Items #1, 2 & 3 are in French.

Scales differ.

All items (except #76 & 77) have been microfilmed. See finding aid for NMC numbers.

There are no restrictions on access to or reproduction of this material.

Researchers should check accessions 78903/97 and 79003/22 for related drawings. Photographs relating to this collection are found in the Documentary Art and Photography Division, accession 1978-3.