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Book Collection of Greene And Greene
Visual Materials
Three books from the office library of Greene and Greene
Subseries K.
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Letter copy book (Greene and Greene)
Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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Account book: Graves and Chapman
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.
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Day book: The Baker Block
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence (including 23 letter books), 3 photographs, 2 scrapbooks, business documents, and financial ledgers related to the life and business activities of Jackson A. Graves. Subject matter includes banking and finance, and much of the business correspondence in the collection is with Isaias W. Hellman (1842-1920), president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Los Angeles from 1875 to 1920 and president of Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank in San Francisco from 1890 to 1920. The collection also contains land papers of the Los Angeles area (including materials related to Rancho San Pasqual) and papers of California law firms.
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