Visual Materials

Airforms - Photographs, Mexico

Description: Neff appears in some photographs in Mexico City with associates. Includes a group of snapshots taken by Neff of Airforms, people, beaches, housing, and aerial shots from an airplane window.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1948-1950s
Call number: archNeff
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.

Airforms

Visual Materials

Includes many 2 1/4 x 2 1/4-inch original negatives taken by Wallace Neff, of Airforms, people, and aerial views in Mexico, approximately 1940s-1950s. Some images of Airforms under construction. See also Subseries 3. Negatives/Transparencies: Reachi, Manuel, for additional Airform images.

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Airforms - Photographs, Africa

Visual Materials

Includes Neff in ceremony with King of Egypt, 1949.

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Airforms - Drawings

Visual Materials

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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Airforms - Correspondence

Visual Materials

Includes 5 photographs of Airforms being built in Portugal. Attached to letter from Adolf K. N. Waterval, A.I.A., July 24, 1955 (Folder 10).

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Airforms - Photographs, various

Visual Materials

A variety of mostly professional photographs, some unidentified. Neff and other people appear in some images. Some photographs by Maynard Parker.

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Photographs of Airform Construction

Visual Materials

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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Airforms - Photographs, Mexico

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