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Custodial History note
Preferred Citation note
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Content note
Title: Robert Vincent Derrah papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000128
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
18.0 Linear feet
(4 record storage boxes and 5 flat file drawers)
Date (inclusive): circa 1922-circa 1946
Location note: Boxes 1-3/ADC - regular Box 4/ADC - oversize** 5 Flat File Drawers/ADC - flat files
creator:
Derrah, Robert Vincent, 1895-1946
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Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History note
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Jensen, 1992.
Preferred Citation note
Robert Vincent Derrah papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Biographical/Historical note
Robert Vincent Derrah was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 14, 1895. Derrah was a graduate of both the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard University with degrees in architecture. He came to Southern California in 1924 and established
his firm Derrah and Associates in Beverly Hills. His most notable Los Angeles projects include: the Southern California Gas
Company building # 1 in downtown Los Angeles, Crossroads of the World, Acme Brewery, and the streamline modern style Coca
Cola Company Plant on Central Avenue. Derrah died in Los Angeles on October 9, 1946, at the age of 51.
Scope and Content note
The Robert Vincent Derrah papers span 18 linear feet and date from circa 1922 to circa 1946. The collection is primarily composed
of architectural drawings, reprographic copies, and presentation boards of commercial and residential buildings, including
a house and a studio for the actor Charlie Chaplin, and many apartment buildings, in the Los Angeles area.
The collection also includes clippings, correspondence in the form of letters and telegraphs, architectural pamphlets, black-and-white
photographs and negatives of Derrah’s Coca-Cola buildings, the Crossroads of the World commercial complex, residential buildings,
and the 1941 Southern California Gas Company building in downtown Los Angeles.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Derrah, Robert Vincent, 1895-1946
Architectural drawings
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th Century
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California
Negatives
Photographic prints
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Reprographic copies