Genre: Elevations / Collection: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Haddon Hall Apartments, Los Angeles, principal elevation drawing on linen

Date:: 1925-26
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Tower Theatre, Los Angeles, Eighth Street elevation

Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Tower Theatre, Los Angeles, interior elevation, sketch

Description:: First talkies in Los Angeles.
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Wurlitzer Theatre, Cincinnati, Elevation, alternate design (1)

Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Wurlitzer Theatre, Cincinnati, Elevation, alternate design (2)

Description:: Lee did two schemes for this theatre, office tower, and retail complex, planned for Cincinnati. Many studies for the design are also included in the collection.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Wilshire, Beverly Hills

Date:: Between 1928 and 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, street elevation

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, auditorium

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, auditorium

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, auditorium

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Studio Theatre, Hollywood, front elevation, color pencil drawing

Description:: This simplified façade uses colored stripes to create the effect.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, auditorium

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, auditorium

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, upper street elevation

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Fox Theatre, Long Beach, interior elevation, lobby [colored pencil]

Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Studio Theatre, Hollywood, elevation, pencil drawing

Description:: Lee located the Moderne façade at the center of the building in this early concept.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Studio Theatre, Hollywood, front elevation detail, side elevation of marquee, pencil drawing

Description:: This version of the façade is fairly close to the "as built" version. The canopy marquee, however, was slanted upward in the final built version.
Date:: 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, interior elevation of east wall of waiting lobby

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, elevations of sales room, reception, entrance doors and circular case

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, interior elevation of sitting room

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, interior elevation of room with sofa

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, make-up studio [street level elevation conceptual drawing]

Description:: In 1935 Lee submitted two designs for the remodeling of Max Factor's showroom and manufacturing facility on Highland Avenue in Hollywood: an elegant Streamline Moderne high-rise, shown in this rendering, and a more modest Art Deco concept, which was accepted and survives to this day.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Max Factor Building, Highland Avenue elevation

Description:: This elevation drawing shows Lee's Art Deco styling of the Max Factor building façade, which he repeated in his designs for showrooms and furniture. Photographs in the Lee archive show that his remodeling included stylish showrooms planned to complement the complexions and hair coloring of clients, and also a paneled office for the company's chief executive.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Oldknow House, Bel Air, entrance elevation, sketch

Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Academy Theatre, Inglewood, elevations

Description:: The floor plan (2070001) shows how the geometry of overlapping circles shaped the design. The architectural drawing of the façade (2070002) depicts a spool of film unwinding, the inspiration for the spiral form used on the pylon (10102-10103)). Compare the photo of the auditorium (10105) with the floor plan (2070001) and the ceiling plan (2070002).
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962