Visual Materials

Airforms

Description: Includes files and correspondence with Airform manufacturers, builders, and clients, as well as patent and license files. Some drawings and photographs are attached to letters in these files; they are noted in descriptions.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1934-1979
Call number: Subseries 3
Creator: Neff, Wallace (1895-1982)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Wallace Neff Jr., July 14, 2006 and 2008.; gift of Diane L. Kanner, June 2005.; purchased from Hansen Photography, 2009.; gift of Ann B. Munger, Nora Berwick, and Maria Witte, 2014.; gift of Stephen Goddard, 2016.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Airform patents - Payments made

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This file contains two ledgers of accounting and summaries in Neff's handwriting. See Airform - Correspondence (Boxes 34-35) for other patent correspondence and documents for 1953 to 1959.

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Airforms - Drawings

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Sketches, blueprints, tracing paper drawings, copies of drawings and renderings. Additional drawings are attached to correspondence or other files in the Airforms series.

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Photographs of Airform Construction

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This collection contains photographs, papers and published articles related to Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff (1895-1982) and his work designing residential and public buildings, primarily in Southern California, approximately 1913-1960s. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of residential exteriors and interiors, with some views of other buildings; photographs of Neff's sketches; photographs of architectural drawings; portraits of Neff and family members; and correspondence and patent drawings pertaining to airform construction. The airform construction or "Bubble house" materials also include snapshots of airform housing under construction in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1961. An autograph copy of Neff's book "Architecture of Southern California" (Rand McNally, 1964) is also part of this collection (Box 6).

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Airform scrapbook

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Contains drawings, clippings, photographs, and ephemera related to Airform construction. Includes two loose blueprint drawings (folded) of Airform elevations and floor plans, 1960.

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Airform Construction: Correspondence pertaining to airform construction, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, ca. 1960s

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Airform Construction: Correspondence, ca. 1959

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