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Martin Eli Weil papers
Series IV. Project Records
Photographs

Visual Materials

Photographs

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1964-2009.
Call number: archWeil
Creator: Weil, Martin Eli(Opens in new tab)

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Provenance

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

Gift of Peter and June Weil, June 2014.

Associated people

Kelley, H. Roy (1892- ,)

Kelly, Arthur Rolland, (1878-1959,)

Kwan, Raymond, (1894-1980,)

Weil, Martin Eli, (1867-1959,)

Weil, Martin Eli,

Williams, Paul R.,

Wright, Frank Lloyd,

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