Finding Aid for the Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, circa 1925-circa 1940 0000260
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
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
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:
2.0 Linear feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1925-circa 1940
creator:
Neff, Edwin Wallace
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Wallace Neff, 1975.
Wallace Neff photographs and postcards, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University
of California, Santa Barbara.
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.
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 compose the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Neff, Edwin Wallace
Negatives
Photographic prints
Postcards