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The materials in this series provide additional aids to researching the work of Greene and Greene. Boxes 171-177 contain copies of original drawings housed in the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California at Berkeley. In most cases, these drawings are of projects not included in the collection, but in some cases they provide supplementary material. Boxes 178-187 house photographs and records concerning the lives of the Gamble family: David and Mary Gamble, their ancestors and descendants, family philanthropy, family lantern slides and negatives from the turn of the 20th century.

Boxes 188-191 include family records of some of the Greene's original clients, as well as those of later owners, documenting more fully the history of several buildings by Charles and Henry Greene.

Box 192 contains records from the family of Alice Gordon White Greene, Charles Greene's wife. Box 193 contains records from the family of Henry Mather Greene.

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1829-2002

Gamble Family Papers, Records, and Photographs

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Box 178 contains photographs of the Gamble family houses in Cincinnati and summer cottage in Harbor Point, Michigan, their children Cecil, Sidney and Clarence, grandchildren, parents and siblings of David and Mary, family employees, as well as personal correspondence, genealogical information, biographies, and obituaries. Boxes 179 and 180 contain financial records from the 1950s and records of some of the family's philanthropic efforts, mostly related to missionary activities of the Presbyterian Church in Asia. Boxes 181-182 contain books that belonged to the family, including Pedigree of the Gambles of Fermanagh (1899) and Alfred Lief's "It Floats": The Story of Procter and Gamble (1958). Box 183 contains books by and about Sidney Gamble. Box 184 contains lantern slides of early family photographs, taken mostly in Harbor Point; Box 185 contains glass plate negatives, some of same images as in the lantern slides. Box 186 contains art prints and reproductions given by the Gamble family with the house. Box 187 contains a diary kept by Mary Gamble of the early childhood of her first-born son, Cecil. See also Boxes 86-87 which contain photograph albums by Sidney Gamble, including early photographs of the Gamble House.

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Research files

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Files comprise chiefly articles and handwritten notes concerning important buildings in Southern California architectural history, including the Banning House, Dunbar Hotel, and the Lummis House; the materials also include files relating to buildings represented in Series IV, including Ennis-Brown House and Gamble House. Many of the files include correspondence from Weil to people involved with the properties.

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Charles S. Greene Photograph Collection

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Contains Charles Greene family photographs, including children, parents, sisters of Alice Gordon White Greene, and members of Henry Greene's family. Boxes 14 and 15 contain photos taken by Charles in Europe (1901) and England (1901, 1909). Flat File Folder 39 (Series III.A.)contains 2 panoramic photographs of attendees at the 1911 AIA meeting in San Francisco, and 3 prints of a photograph of attendees at the 1948 AIA dinner honoring the Greenes in Los Angeles.

Subseries F.

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Journal clippings and scrapbook material on Will Bradley's Bradley House

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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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Gamble family biographical materials (David, Mary), genealogy

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Henry M. Greene Photograph Collection

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Contains family photographs, including children, parents and members of Charles Greene's family. Boxes 16-20 contain family photograph albums. Box 16 contains a family photo album given in 1884 to Lelia Mather Greene by her mother-in-law. The album in Box 20 contains photographs taken on outings in the mountains above Pasadena in the 1890s. See also Flat File Folder 39 (Series III. A.) for AIA award photographs.

Subseries G.

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