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Finding Aid of the Collection of Material Relating to Prefabricated Housing Studies in Europe and the United States
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  • 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.