Visual Materials
Office Records
- Description
This series has been assembled from various sources, since no coherent series of office records survives. Included here are scattered records of various types: letterheads, sample contracts, fee schedules, a letter copybook from 1902, a letter from Peter Hall from 1909, some trade advertisements and catalogues, and scattered ledgers kept by Henry Greene. Some of the records document collaborative work occurring after the dissolution of the firm Greene and Greene. Flat File Folder 39 contains Charles' diploma from the Manual Training School (1887), Charles' and Henry's architecture licenses (1901) and an AIA award certificate (1952). Also photographs of 1911 AIA meeting in San Francisco/Berkeley and of 1948 AIA award dinner in Los Angeles.
- Date
- 1894-1952
- Call number
- Series II.
- Provenance
- Gift of The Gamble House Conservancy, July 2021. In 1968, the Greene and Greene Library (later the Greene and Greene Archives) was established to bring together drawings, photographs, and other records of the Greenes' work. The core of the initial collection was the gift by David and Mary Gamble of drawings and photographs of The Gamble House. Subsequently more than 400 donors contributed to the collection, most importantly the families of Charles and Henry Greene, who donated personal correspondence, family photographs, drawings and sketches, and numerous other materials. Besides the Greene and Gamble families, other clients and later owners of Greene and Greene buildings gifted drawings and other records. The Greene and Greene Collection also contains a research collection on Greene and Greene, comprised of copies of original materials from other institutions and other secondary materials. The Greene and Greene collection has physically resided at The Huntington Library since 1987. However, during that time it remained the property of and was administered by the Greene and Greene Archives of The Gamble House, School of Architecture, University of Southern California until 2019 when ownership was transferred to the Gamble House Conservancy. In July 2021, The Huntington acquired the collection from the Gamble House Conservancy.
