Visual Materials

Photographs

Description: Arranged by the name of the original client, this series contains photographs of buildings and furniture drawn from various sources, including the families of the Greenes and of the clients, from later owners, and other donors. These photographs date from the time of construction through the present. Included are photographs by well-known photographers, such as Harold A. Parker, Maynard Parker, Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman, and Ezra Stoller, as well as early photos by Gamble son, Sidney, and a professional photographer hired by the Greenes, Leroy Hulbert (a tinted photograph by Hulbert of the Camp house is in Box 121 below). See also Flat File 40 for oversize tinted photograph by Harold A. Parker of the James Culbertson garden. There are also informal snapshots as well as copy prints from other collections, and a few photographs of the builders and craftsmen, (including Emil Lange, Box 122) who worked on some of the projects.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1898-2000
Call number: Subseries C.
Provenance

Architectural Drawings

Visual Materials

Contains drawings donated by the families of Charles and Henry Greene, by the families of the clients and by the families of later owners. About 137 architectural drawings can be viewed online along with a smaller number of design drawings. A group of post-1966 landscape drawings(unprocessed) for the Gamble House by landscape architect Emmet Wemple was added to the Gamble House drawings in 2011. Large format items other than architectural drawings are housed in the last few folders of the subseries. These include photographs and certificates related to the AIA awards to the Greenes in 1948 and 1952; an oversize tinted photograph of the James Culbertson garden; and wallpaper and paint samples from the Lucy Wheeler house. See also an oversize tinted photograph of the Camp house and presentation drawings for Darling, Robinson, and Tichenor houses in Boxes 121 and 121a, Subseries D. below.

Subseries A.

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Charles S. Greene Photograph Collection

Visual Materials

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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Photographs by William R. Current

Visual Materials

William Current grew up in Pasadena and began photographing the work of Greene and Greene as a teenager. He received a Guggenheim Foundation grant in the 1970s, resulting in a comprehensive documentation of all of the Greenes' work that was made accessible to him. He also traveled to the Avery Library at Columbia University and to the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley to photograph many of the drawings (Avery) and historic photographs of the houses (Berkeley). The project became a traveling exhibition and a book, produced in collaboration with his wife Karen Current. Box 124 contains the 1950s photographs. Most of the others appear to date from the 1970s. Negatives and contact prints of images not printed enrich the collection with extra images of the buildings, architectural drawings and historic photographs, making it a valuable resource for study as well as an aesthetic treasure. Also included are a few photographs documenting other Arts and Crafts work, such as the Keyes bungalow in Altadena and the work of Buffalo Metalworks. Karen Current Sinsheimer and Jennifer Current donated more than 1600 original prints and negatives by Current to the Greene and Greene Archives in 2005.

Subseries F

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Oversize photographs

Visual Materials

Large photographic prints of Neff buildings, 16 x 20 inches and slightly smaller, in color, and in black and white. They are mostly copies, with a few original photographs by William M. Clarke, Padilla Studios, and Maynard Parker. There is one portrait of Amelita Galli-Curci. The bulk of building photographs are in Series 4. Wallace Neff Jr. Papers: Research files and photographs.

Subseries 5

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Henry M. Greene Personal Correspondence, including his collection of family records

Visual Materials

Box 6 contains materials regarding the marriage of Henry to Emeline Dart in 1899, scattered correspondence (1912-1954), and notes, records and ephemera documenting Henry's trip to the East coast in 1912-1913. There is also a notebook, two personal account books (1899-1903 and 1911-1917), and award certificates from the AIA in 1948 and 1952. At the end of Box 6 are family materials of the Greenes, including the "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence 1775" by Thomas Sumner, a typescript account of Thomas Sumner Greene's experiences in the Civil War and records of the Greene family.

Subseries E.

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Job (Project) Records

Visual Materials

This series has also been assembled from various sources, including clients and later owners, and only partially reflects the actual records from the Greenes' architectural practice(s). Arranged alphabetically by the name of the original client are architectural drawings, renderings or presentation drawings, specifications, client and contractor correspondence, contracts, invoices, and a large group of photographs. Some photos are dated pre-1920, but most date from post-1945, after the rediscovery of the Greenes' work. Some of these photographs are copy prints from other collections. Included in this series is a small group of materials documenting the craftsmen who worked with the Greenes, especially Emil Lange. The William R. Current photographs of the works of Greene and Greene from the 1950s and the 1970s (donated in 2005) have been added at the end of the series and are arranged alphabetically by the name of the original client.

Series III.

Photographs

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