Visual Materials

California Security Loan Corporation, Pasadena

Description: Photographs only - exterior and interiors of a bank building.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1910-2008.
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.

California Security Loan Corporation building, Pasadena, California (Job 179)

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11 drawings of a bank building: Basement and floor plans, elevations, sections, details.

archNeff

California Security Loan Corporation building, Pasadena, California (Job 179)

Visual Materials

Bank building: Basement and floor plans, elevations, sections, details.

archNeff

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California Security Loan Corporation: 315-325 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA [interior and exterior]

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).

photCL 211

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Forthmann

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Photographs only (1982) of large two-story brick residence and interiors. Possibly Nora Forthmann residence, Los Angeles? File only said "Forthman" [sic].

archNeff

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Gillette, Mr. and Mrs. King, residence, Stokes Canyon, Calabasas, California (Jobs 260, 267, 269)

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17 drawings: Plot plan and map to property; basement and foundation; first and second floor plans, structural details, elevations, millwork details, garage building elevations and interiors, stables plans. See also Brown, Clarence (remodel of same house).

archNeff

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Pickford, Mary, Pickfair residence, Beverly Hills, California

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Only one item on Pickfair: specifications for a garage, 1936. File also contains four handwritten cards from Mary Pickford to Neff: one photographic postcard of Mary Pickford and husband Buddy Rogers (1937), and three Christmas cards (1944-1946?) with photographs of Mary, Buddy, and their two children.

archNeff

California Security Loan Corporation, Pasadena

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