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Sanders (gate)
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Sanders
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Photographs of an ironwork driveway gate. File had surname only.
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Neff Jr.'s rolodex of Neff clients
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Neff Jr.'s card file rolodex of his father's works, with client names, dates of projects, addresses, and other information.
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Portfolio: Wallace Neff, Architect of California's Golden Age, by Wallace Neff Jr. and Robert Hansen
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A portfolio of approximately 50 loose pages of printed photographs and text related to Wallace Neff's life and works. Note: this is not a copy of Wallace Neff Jr.'s 1986 book of the same title; the content is completely different. Includes reproductions of some of the contemporary renderings of Neff houses. Publication information reads: Copyright Wallace Neff Jr.; book design by Robert Hansen. Center Gallery Editions, printed in San Juan Capistrano, California, by Robert Hansen.
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Fairbanks, Frederick Cole, residence
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Includes a set of negatives of the Fairbanks' personal photo album of the house, loaned to Neff Jr. for copying, according to note in file. Also 35mm images by Neff Jr., taken approximately 1980s.
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Unidentified two-story house with prominent driveway gate: Painting by Robert De Rosa
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This collection contains the papers and architectural drawings of Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff, whose career spanned 56 years, from 1919 to 1975. The collection is divided into five series: Personal papers, Professional papers, Project records, Wallace Neff Jr. papers, and Additional donations. The materials include over 100 sets of drawings and plans, Neff's project files, writings and correspondence, job lists, daily journals, sketches and renderings, and photographs. The majority of Neff's work was residential architecture in Southern California, but the collection also contains materials on many types of institutional buildings and other structures Neff designed. Most projects are in California, with some material on projects in Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. The Airform project files discuss building in Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, and other countries. Residences represented include those for Edward L. and Estelle Carrie Doheny, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Amelita Galli-Curci, Fredric March, Frances Marion and Fred Thomson, Groucho Marx, and King Vidor. Other projects include the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library; Manresa Jesuit Retreat House; Ojai Valley Country Club; Saint Elizabeth Church; and buildings for Loyola Marymount University and Pomona College. There are many records on Neff's Airform buildings: contracts, drawings, patents, licenses, correspondence, and photographs. The collection also includes the research files of Neff's son, Wallace Neff Jr. (1930-2013), related to his father's career and works. Neff Jr. compiled this material while working on his 1986 book "Wallace Neff, Architect of California's Golden Age" (text by Alson Clark). Neff Jr.'s files contain many photographs, notes and articles on Neff buildings, as well as Neff family history, and transcripts of talks he gave on his father. In addition, Neff Jr. commissioned contemporary renderings of his father's buildings, which were painted approximately 1991 to 2007 and are part of this collection. The Additional Donations series contains drawings received from other sources after the primary donation in 2006.
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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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