Neff (Wallace) photographs and postcards, circa 1925-circa 1940

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Summary

Title:
Wallace Neff photographs and postcards
Dates:
circa 1925-circa 1940
Creators:
Neff, Edwin Wallace
Extent:
5.0 Linear feet (1 box, 1 flat file folder)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Custodial history:

Gift of Wallace Neff, 1975.

Accruals:

Perspective of ranch house exterior, 1938 sketch by Jamison (reproduction on heavy paper) added to collection Jan 4, 2016, from David Gebhard papers.

Physical location:
Box 1/ADC - regular 1 flat file folder/ADC Flatfiles - Misc - drawer 546

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino and 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 Prepared:
12/20/2012
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2018-07-18T14:49-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, 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
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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