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Charles S. Greene Photograph Collection
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Henry M. Greene Photograph Collection
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Contains family photographs, including children, parents and members of Charles Greene's family. Boxes 16-20 contain family photograph albums. Box 16 contains a family photo album given in 1884 to Lelia Mather Greene by her mother-in-law. The album in Box 20 contains photographs taken on outings in the mountains above Pasadena in the 1890s. See also Flat File Folder 39 (Series III. A.) for AIA award photographs.
Subseries G.
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Charles S. Greene Family and Personal Correspondence
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Box 3 contains letters to and from the Greene family, including correspondence and ephemera documenting Charles' marriage to Alice Gordon White in 1901 and their honeymoon trip to Europe. Also included are scattered letters from Thomas Sumner Greene; from Alice's sisters, Martha and Jane; from Henry Mather Greene, and from the children of Alice and Charles. There is also a series of letters from Alice and the children to Charles while he was on visits to Pasadena in 1918 and 1919. A small group of letters is addressed to Alice Greene from friends and family (1901-1960), as are a few to eldest son Nathaniel Patrickson Greene, and one to daughter Bettie Greene. Several of the letters in this family group concern disposition of Charles' papers after his death.
Subseries B.
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Henry M. Greene Personal Correspondence, including his collection of family records
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Box 6 contains materials regarding the marriage of Henry to Emeline Dart in 1899, scattered correspondence (1912-1954), and notes, records and ephemera documenting Henry's trip to the East coast in 1912-1913. There is also a notebook, two personal account books (1899-1903 and 1911-1917), and award certificates from the AIA in 1948 and 1952. At the end of Box 6 are family materials of the Greenes, including the "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence 1775" by Thomas Sumner, a typescript account of Thomas Sumner Greene's experiences in the Civil War and records of the Greene family.
Subseries E.
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Book Collection of Charles S. Greene
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Charles Greene had a large collection of books that reflected his interests in art, architecture, furniture, pottery, landscape gardening, Asian art and culture, ancient history, and photography. Many of his books were donated to the University of California at Berkeley; about 70 of the finest books were sold at the California International Book Fair in 1993. The collection includes 10 boxes of books, including a few on Japanese and Indian art, as well as a collection of novels by Lafcadio Hearn.
Subseries L.
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Photographs by William R. Current
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William Current grew up in Pasadena and began photographing the work of Greene and Greene as a teenager. He received a Guggenheim Foundation grant in the 1970s, resulting in a comprehensive documentation of all of the Greenes' work that was made accessible to him. He also traveled to the Avery Library at Columbia University and to the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley to photograph many of the drawings (Avery) and historic photographs of the houses (Berkeley). The project became a traveling exhibition and a book, produced in collaboration with his wife Karen Current. Box 124 contains the 1950s photographs. Most of the others appear to date from the 1970s. Negatives and contact prints of images not printed enrich the collection with extra images of the buildings, architectural drawings and historic photographs, making it a valuable resource for study as well as an aesthetic treasure. Also included are a few photographs documenting other Arts and Crafts work, such as the Keyes bungalow in Altadena and the work of Buffalo Metalworks. Karen Current Sinsheimer and Jennifer Current donated more than 1600 original prints and negatives by Current to the Greene and Greene Archives in 2005.
Subseries F
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Office Records
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This series has been assembled from various sources, since no coherent series of office records survives. Included here are scattered records of various types: letterheads, sample contracts, fee schedules, a letter copybook from 1902, a letter from Peter Hall from 1909, some trade advertisements and catalogues, and scattered ledgers kept by Henry Greene. Some of the records document collaborative work occurring after the dissolution of the firm Greene and Greene. Flat File Folder 39 contains Charles' diploma from the Manual Training School (1887), Charles' and Henry's architecture licenses (1901) and an AIA award certificate (1952). Also photographs of 1911 AIA meeting in San Francisco/Berkeley and of 1948 AIA award dinner in Los Angeles.
Series II.