A Collection of material relating to prefabricated housing studies in Europe and the United States, 1945-1970

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Summary

Extent:
16.5 Linear Feet (33 boxes)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], A Collection of material relating to prefabricated housing studies in Europe and the United States (Collection 1582). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

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.

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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).

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Prefabricated houses -- Archives.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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], A Collection of material relating to prefabricated housing studies in Europe and the United States (Collection 1582). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
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