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Letters, Swiss driver's license, photographs

Description: Includes various letters to and from Wallace Neff, in French, German, and English; a postcard; calling cards; photographs.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1912-1916
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.

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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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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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.

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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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Negatives and transparencies of Neff and family

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Contains images of Wallace Neff as a teenager and young man (1910s to 1920s), and with his wife and children. Also color images of Neff family members in groups, including Andrew Neff, Wallace Neff Jr., Arthur Neff, Louise Neff, Bill Neff, and Neff's mother, Nannie McNally Neff. There are two copy negatives of late-19th century images of Libby and McNally family groups.

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

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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."

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Letters, Swiss driver's license, photographs

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