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Panoramic photograph: "Employees, Fulton Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, Ca."
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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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Wallace Neff shown at Fulton Shipbuilding Co. in Wilmington, Calif., ca. 1918 [copy print]
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This collection contains photographs, papers and published articles related to Los Angeles architect Wallace Neff (1895-1982) and his work designing residential and public buildings, primarily in Southern California, approximately 1913-1960s. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of residential exteriors and interiors, with some views of other buildings; photographs of Neff's sketches; photographs of architectural drawings; portraits of Neff and family members; and correspondence and patent drawings pertaining to airform construction. The airform construction or "Bubble house" materials also include snapshots of airform housing under construction in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1961. An autograph copy of Neff's book "Architecture of Southern California" (Rand McNally, 1964) is also part of this collection (Box 6).
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Pneumatic forms - Estimates
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Some letters addressed to Neff's son Arthur L. Neff, when he was president of Pneumatic International, Inc. at 5927 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles (Wallace Neff's business address). Arthur L. Neff (1932-1994) was Neff's youngest son.
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Photograph albums of Pacific Electric Railway Company employees and advertising
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Two photograph albums compiled by the Pacific Electric Railway Company featuring employees, offices and publicity scenes of Southern California tourist destinations. Views include individual and group portraits of employees (some named); offices, workers and ticket office at the downtown Los Angeles headquarters; substations; streetcars and working equipment. There are numerous views of Mount Lowe and Echo Mountain showing people in the tavern and bungalows reached by the Mount Lowe Railway; crowds on the beaches and piers of Venice, Santa Monica and Ocean Park; the Redondo Beach Bath House; street scenes in Balboa at a crowded ceremony, and the Mission Inn, Riverside. Other views include posed scenes with models or "bathing beauties"; company exhibits at citrus fairs; a group of clowning men in "drag" (possibly employees), and a group portrait of Mexican American children and company nurses at one of Pacific Electric's section camps for Mexican American employees.
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Spalding residence photographs, Pasadena, California
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A set of nineteen loose photographs showing interior and exterior views of the residence of Keith Spalding and his wife Eudora Hull Spalding at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena, California; fourteen of the photographs are by Hiller [Studios?] and five are by Padilla [Studios]. The residence was a 24-room "garden villa" with gardens designed by landscape architect Paul Theine (1880-1971). The eleven interior views, all taken by Hiller, show a dining room, living room, parlor and other sitting areas, entrance hall, and staircase to the second floor; the images document design elements including furnishings and artwork and architectural features including arched passageways between rooms. The eight exterior views, five by Padilla and three by Hiller, include the walkway leading to a gate and to a door; the back yard and patio; a pond and a fountain; and the Maryland Hotel wall, of which the design has been credited to Wallace Neff in 1926. One of the views of the grounds and wall shows City Hall adjacent to the property.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company photographs of McKeen motor cars
Manuscripts
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of American railroad mechanical engineer and innovator William Riley McKeen Jr. (1869-1946) who developed some of the first gasoline-powered railroad motor cars, beginning in 1905 for the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1908, he became president of the McKeen Motor Car Company, which built over 150 of the pioneering motor cars through 1917. The materials are primarily focused on the McKeen motor cars and the history of their promotion and production, 1905-1917. Materials include promotional booklets and ephemera, news clippings, scrapbooks, operating manuals, McKeen's personal notebooks and over 300 photographs. Series 1 begins with McKeen's youth and schooling, with examples of some of his engineering notes and workbooks. There are also notes on designing his house, a genealogy of the McKeen family, and his father's estate settlement papers, which include correspondence between McKeen and his siblings. McKeen's professional work and concerns are reflected in several notebooks he kept during his career, with detailed notes related to employees, design issues and other work in the railroad mechanical shops. There are only a few letters of business correspondence, and just one copy of a letter from E. H. Harriman (no original). Among the personal papers is a file of documents related to a 1912 lawsuit brought against McKeen and his second wife, Mary, by Mary's former husband, Charles Hull, in Omaha, Nebraska. This file contains documents that would be of interest to medical and social history researchers: a detective's transcript of observations of prostitutes and activities at brothels (collected to disparage Mr. Hull). Series 2 contains McKeen motor car materials, primarily promotional brochures and ephemera (including a package of custom cigarettes), operating manuals, production statistics, news clippings and articles. See also Series 3 and 4 for clippings and photographs of McKeen motor cars. Series 3 contains three scrapbooks: A) a personal ledger, with clippings; B) a scrapbook of over 100 clippings about the McKeen Motor Car Company, 1907 -- 1920; and C) a scrapbook of photographs and clippings about McKeen motor cars in Australia, 1911-1912. Series 4 contains photographs, including a set of Union Pacific company photographs of McKeen motor cars over the years 1905-1911. McKeen appears in some photographs, and there are some views of employees, Omaha shop buildings, engines and production views. Other photographs show McKeen motor cars on various railroads, some wrecks, engine parts, and views of the McKeen Highway Coach, a passenger vehicle introduced in 1915.
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