Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Material Relating to Prefabricated Housing Studies in Europe and the United States,
Date (inclusive): 1945-1970
Collection number: 1582
Extent:
33 boxes (16.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Material Relating to Prefabricated Housing Studies in Europe and the United States
(Collection 1582). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of files, including U.S. government and other publications relating to aspects of prefabricated housing
in Europe and the U.S. Subjects include the Lanham Act, acorn houses, bathroom equipment, Greenbelt Homeowners Cooperative,
Italian prefabs, Schilfhaus, Timber Engineering Company, Woolsey homes, Prefabricated Home Manufacturers' Institute (PHMI),
European housing credit insurance, Atlantropa Institut, Morocco project, Dortmund Forschungsstelle, F.H.A. policy memos, Heat
loss bulletin, and Indian Head houses.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- U.S. legislation (Boxes 1-2).
- Manufacturers (Boxes 2-5).
- Publications (Boxes 5-6).
- Architectural papers (Boxes 6-7).
- Bannockburn (Box 8).
- United Nations (Box 8).
- International (Boxes 8-15).
- Technical U.S. (Boxes 15-19).
- Pink-foldered files (Boxes 20-28).
- Three-ring binder (Box 28).
- US publications (Boxes 29-33).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Prefabricated houses--Archival resources.