Greenwald (Jody) research materials on Cliff May, circa 1950-circa 2009

Collection context

Summary

Title:
Jody Greenwald research materials on Cliff May
Dates:
circa 1950-circa 2009
Creators:
Greenwald, Jody and May, Cliff, 1908-1989
Extent:
6.0 Linear feet (6 record storage boxes, 1 flat file)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Jody Greenwald research materials on Cliff May, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The Jody Greenwald research materials on Cliff May span 6 linear feet and date from circa 1950 to circa 2009. The collection includes Cliff May’s correspondence organized by residential project, transcriptions of an interview Greenwald did with May in 1984, her personal research notes, magazine and newspaper clippings regarding Cliff May’s work, black-and-white photographs and slides of Cliff May’s residential designs, and VHS tape recordings of episode number 412 of the television show “If Walls Could Talk” which featured a Cliff May San Diego hacienda. The flat file folder contains reprographic copies of floor plans and elevations for Cliff Mays' own homes. Note that some of the materials in this collection, such as carbon copies of May's correspondence, were given to Greenwald by Cliff May before he donated his papers to the repository.

Biographical / historical:

Jody Greenwald, California interior designer, educator, lecturer and writer was born in Los Angeles, California on August 13, 1922. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for both her Bachelor’s degree in Design and Art History as well as her Master’s degree in Art and Architectural History. In 1972, she founded and was the director of the Interior and Environmental Design Program at UCLA Extension. During her career, Greenwald did extensive research on Cliff May for a prospective book that never came to fruition. Jody Greenwald died at the age of 88, on June 5, 2010.

Custodial history:

Gift of Jody Greenwald, 2004.

Physical location:
Box 1-6/ADC - regular 1 Flat File Folder/ADC - flat files misc
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino, revised and completed by Julia Larson
Sponsor:
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.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2018-05-14T16:04-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

Jody Greenwald research materials on Cliff May, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum. University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724