Nearly six thousand of his drawings survive at San Francisco Maritime, spanning the 1880s to the 1950s — one of the largest single-architect collections on the West Coast, belonging to a man about whom almost nothing is written.
- Archive
- David W. Dickie records (HDC0128), San Francisco Maritime NHP — personal papers and office records including nearly 6,000 architectural drawings and plans, 1880s–1950s
- Family
- Of the Dickie shipbuilding family of San Francisco; understood to be the son of James S. Dickie and nephew of John Watson Dickie
- Not to be confused with
- David A. Dickie (1880–1968), John W. Dickie's son and partner, who left shipbuilding for insurance finance; or George W. Dickie, chief engineer of Union Iron Works and designer of USS Oregon
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- No birth or death year, education, firm name or client list could be found. The genealogical placement as James S. Dickie's son rests on an OAC finding-aid note rather than a biography. For the size of the archive he left, this is the largest single biographical gap in the atlas.
- No standalone finding aid for the drawing collection itself could be located — only the CAMM directory entry and the NPS plans page confirm it.
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