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Panoramic photograph: "Employees, Fulton Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, Ca."

Description: Group photograph of over 100 employees at site, including Wallace Neff, who worked there at the beginning of his career. Credited to: "International Examiner Bldg. Los Angeles."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1918 April 17
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.
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Panoramic photograph: "Employees, Fulton Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, Ca."

Visual Materials

Group photograph of over 100 employees at site, including Wallace Neff, who worked there at the beginning of his career. Credited to: "International Examiner Bldg. Los Angeles."

archNeff

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Wallace Neff shown at Fulton Shipbuilding Co. in Wilmington, Calif., ca. 1918 [copy print]

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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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Matted photographs, residences and Neff-Ruppel building

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Primarily 8 x 10-inch prints in cardboard mats. Residences: Marion-Thomson, Clark B. Millikan, Wallace Neff (own residence, San Marino). Other: Neff-Ruppel building.

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Oversize photographs, residences

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Residences: Wallace Neff (own house, San Marino), Robert K. Straus, King Vidor (1928 and 1936 houses), Sol Wurtzel.

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Letters, Swiss driver's license, photographs

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Includes various letters to and from Wallace Neff, in French, German, and English; a postcard; calling cards; photographs.

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Neff Jr.'s book party

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Wallace Neff Jr. compiled and edited the book "Wallace Neff: Architect of California's Golden Age" (published 1986), with text by Alson Clark. This file contains Clark's book proposal, as well as a guest list and photographs of the book publication party held at the Marion-Thomson estate (Wallace Neff, architect), on January 18, 1987. Includes hundreds of thumbnail-size photographs of guests at the party, and some larger photographs showing the house exterior.

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Panoramic photograph: "Employees, Fulton Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, Ca."

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Panoramic photograph: "Employees, Fulton Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, Ca."

Wallace Neff shown at Fulton Shipbuilding Co. in Wilmington, Calif., ca. 1918 [copy print]

Matted photographs, residences and Neff-Ruppel building

Oversize photographs, residences

Letters, Swiss driver's license, photographs

Neff Jr.'s book party