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    Report covers and blueprints

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    Contains oversize original report covers and negatives of blueprints used in the Hollyhock House Historic Structures Report (Job 9104); the materials were removed from Box 4, Folder 8.

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    Negatives

    Visual Materials

    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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    Drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright for exhibition

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    Six reprographic copies of original drawings by Frank Lloyd Wright from roll originally labeled "'60 Years of Living Architecture' - Exhibition Pavilion for L.A., Frank Lloyd Wright."

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    Chapman Park Market

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    3451 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020. Collection contains drawings only; no other project documentation found. Eight drawings, 1928 (copies), 47 x 65 cm.

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    Slides and filmstrips

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    Contains four smaller boxes (Boxes 65A-65D) and an archival sleeve. Box 65A contains five unidentified 35mm filmstrips depicting various architectural features. Boxes 65B-65D contain approximately 250 slides depicting various buildings and architectural features, some of which were projects of Weil's, including projects documented in Series IV; many of these slides were removed from unlabeled plastic storage boxes and are assumed to have been used in Weil's teaching and research. In Boxes 65B and 65C, Post-it notes indicating features of interest and groups of slides, such as "Construction," "Glass," or "Toberman House," were replaced with tabs recording the original text. Box 65D contains approximately 40 slides, chiefly concerning buildings in Los Angeles and Southern California. The box also includes a sleeve containing a slide of a 1957 advertisement, found loose among Weil's rolled drawings.

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    Film negatives

    Manuscripts

    There are 94 copy film negatives, of various sizes, for 57 images: 35mm copy film negatives for fifty-two items: 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 73, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 10 x 13.5cm (3.75 x 4.75 inch) or 7.5 x 10 cm (3 x 4 inch) film negatives for thirty-five items: 23, 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 72, 77, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94 12.5 x 18 cm (5 x 7 inch) film negatives for two items: 86 and 87 20 x 25.5 cm (8 x 10 inch) film negatives for five items: 40, 54, 70, 71, and 86

    mssDolley; photCL 123