Finding Aid for the Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, circa 1925-circa 1940
0000260
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino and Julia Larson
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered
through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
12/20/2012
Title: Wallace Neff photographs and postcards
Identifier/Call Number: 0000260
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.0 Linear feet
(1 box, 1 flat file folder)
Date (inclusive): circa 1925-circa 1940
Location note: Box 1/ADC - regular 1 flat file folder/ADC Flatfiles - Misc - drawer 546
creator:
Neff, Edwin Wallace
Access
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of Wallace Neff, 1975.
Preferred Citation note
Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
Edwin Wallace Neff, Sr. was born on January 28, 1895 in La Mirada, California. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology where he studied architecture and graduated in 1917. Following school, Neff worked at the American Shipbuilding
Company in San Pedro, California during WWI. In 1919, Neff worked as a draftsman for George Washington Smith in Santa Barbara
before opening his own firm in Los Angeles. Wallace Neff died on June 8, 1982.
Accruals note
Perspective of ranch house exterior, 1938 sketch by Jamison (reproduction on heavy paper) added to collection Jan 4, 2016,
from David Gebhard papers.
Scope and Content note
The Wallace Neff photographs and postcards span 2 linear feet and date from circa 1925 to circa 1940. The collection is primarily
composed of black-and-white photographs taken of the exteriors of various homes and civic buildings designed by Neff. Projects
documented in the collection include: the A. K. Bourne Estate (San Marino, Calif.), Boardman house, Tragerman house (Hollywood,
Calif.), Eaton house, and the Doheny Memorial library (Camarillo, Calif.) Two postcards of the Mary Pickfair and Douglass
Fairbanks house (Beverly Hill, Calif.) also part of the collection. One 1938 drawing of an unidentified ranch house (perspective
sketch by Jamison), reproduced on heavy paper, was added to the collection, previously part of the David Gebhard papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Neff, Edwin Wallace
Negatives
Photographic prints
Postcards
Projects I.
1925-1940
Physical Description:
5.0 Linear feet
Scope and Contents note
This series contains photographs, negatives, and one graphite rendering of residences by Neff. It also contains construction
photographs of the Doheny Memorial Library, color postcards of "Pickfair," and unidentified photographs of houses.
Box 1, Folder 1
Bourne, A.K. house 2035 Lombardy Rd. (San Marino, Calif.)
1925-1926
Box 1, FlatFile 2
Burden, Shirley / Frederic March house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
undated
Box 1, Folder 2
Eaton house Hope Ranch (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
undated
creator:
Parker, Maynard L, 1900-1976
Box 1, Folder 3
Pickford, Mary and Fairbanks, Douglas house Pickfair (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
circa 1926-1934
Box 1, Folder 4
St. Johns Seminary / E.L. Doheny Memorial Library (Camarillo, Calif.)
1940
creator:
Bernie's Photo Shop.
Box 1, Folder 5
Stein, Jules house (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
1930
Box 1, Folder 6
Thorne house (Pasadena, Calif.)
undated
Box 1, Folder 7
Tragerman, J. house (Hollywood Hills, Calif.)
1936
Box 1, Folder 8
Unidentified Photographs
undated
Drawer 546, FlatFile 1
Unidentified Rendering
1938
Box 1, Folder 9
Vidor, King and Elinor Boardman (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
1935
