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Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright for exhibition
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Photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
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Two photograph albums showing work on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including Storer House.
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U-W (Rolls 149-161)
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See Series II, Subseries A: Writings and Related Research, Paul Williams drawings, for information about the drawings in Box 114, Rolls 159-160; and Series II, Subseries F: Posters and Drawings, for information about Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, Box 114, Roll 161.
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Publications, 1990-2002
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Titles from the 1990s include American Bungalow, Angeles, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Architecture, Classic Home, Historic Preservation, Journal of the Taliesin Fellows, and Old House Journal. Titles from the 2000s include Architectural Record (May 2000) and Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly (Volume 13, Numbers 2 and 3, Spring and Summer 2002); the issue of Architectural Record contains many Post-it notes, which have been left in place, and the issues of Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly contain the feature, "Conserving Wright's Architecture," Parts 1 and 2, the latter with an image of Hollyhock House on its cover.
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Rancho Los Alamitos - Storer House
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Includes materials from Rancho Los Alamitos; Rancho Los Cerritos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; San Gabriel Bank; Santa Clarita Historical Society; South Pasadena High School Auditorium; and South Seas House. Also includes piece of an original cast-concrete block designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Storer House, 1923.
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Martin Eli Weil Thesis drawings
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Contains 68 drawings originally housed in two rolls labeled "MEW Thesis"; the institution for which Weil drew them is unidentified. The drawings depict various buildings, including a Philadelphia country house; a mental health center; Beaver College; and Christy House in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Posters and Drawings
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This collection contains the personal and professional papers of architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009), relating to Weil's work as a restoration architect and consultant in Los Angeles and Southern California. The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples; and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil; the materials date from 1964 until 2009. Files document 428 individual projects, including Frank Lloyd Wright structures such as Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; the restoration of the El Capitan Theater; and jobs undertaken as a consultant for the cities of San Gabriel, La Verne, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. The collection also includes papers reflecting Weil's service as Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; his work as an instructor in historic preservation at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; his writing, chiefly as an architecture columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; his involvement with the Harvard Heights community in Los Angeles, where he lived; and his Master's thesis project.
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