Visual Materials

Objects

Description

Contains materials fragments, paint and stain samples, and other objects, including pieces of walls, ceilings, carpeting, sideboards, and ornamentation including grilles. In a few cases, these materials are the only record of a project in the collection: 132 East Colorado Boulevard; 1746 Hobart Boulevard; and Vineland Hotel. Additionally, Workman Temple and a few West Adams residences and commercial buildings have both photographs and fragments.

These objects were arranged chiefly by previous archivists during the process of conservation.

Type

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Production date

1964-2009.

Call number

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Creator

Weil, Martin Eli(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of the Estate of Martin E. Weil, February 2010.

Gift of Peter and June Weil, June 2014.

Vermont Square Library - Young Apartments

Visual Materials

Includes materials from Vermont Square Library; Villa Riviera; Saint Vincent Jewelry Center; Vineland Hotel; Workman Temple; and Young Apartments. Also includes shingles with original stain and wallpaper from various rooms in Wheeler House, and fragments labeled "West Adams building."

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Carpeting

Visual Materials

Contains two pieces of carpeting.

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Posters and stain samples

Visual Materials

Contains one poster depicting dark stain on white painted trim and two posters depicting interior and exterior finishes from 1915-1935. Also contains a sleeve with samples labeled "typical Craftsman colors." These materials were found together with the posters in Folder OV 2.

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Fragments and pieces, Hollyhock House and Residence A

Visual Materials

Contains fragments from Rooms 1, 4-12, 16, 18-19, Servants' dining room, and Music Room; also contains fragments from Residence A.

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Series IV. Project Records

Visual Materials

This series forms the bulk of the collection and comprises project files, which may include contracts, specifications, correspondence, drawings, photographs, invoices, research materials, and information about particular rooms or features in a given job; and materials separated from these files by Weil, including photographs, chiefly snapshots of work in progress; rolled drawings; objects, comprising mostly materials fragments and paint samples; and audiovisual and electronic media. For details about the individual projects including box and folder numbers for papers, drawings, photographs, and other materials; clients and collaborators; addresses and neighborhoods; project dates; scope of Weil's work; titles of reports authored or co-authored by Weil; original architects and historic designations; awards; titles and dimensions of rolled drawings; and other information, please see the Project Index.

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Photographs

Visual Materials

Contains photographic prints and photograph albums that were filed separately from those in the Files subseries; also includes photographic negatives. In a few instances, the photographs in this subseries are the only documentation found in this collection for a project; this is the case with photographs from Alta Loma Packing; Citrus State Park; Cooper Regional Museum Upland; Los Angeles City Hall; Pasadena Playhouse Theater Area; Phillips Mansion; Rancho Camulos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; W. R. Rowland Adobe; Santa Monica City Hall, Council Chamber; and Strawberry Banke and Maine. The collection contains both photographs and fragments and samples from Workman Temple and West Adams residences/commercial buildings.

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