Visual Materials

Airform: Fairfax County House for Defense Homes Corporation

Description: 19 drawings: Details of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company pneumatic Airform (7); Type "E" house (9); Balloon House variations (3).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1941 and undated
Call number: archNeff
Creator: Neff, Wallace (1895-1982)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Wallace Neff Jr., July 14, 2006 and 2008.; gift of Diane L. Kanner, June 2005.; purchased from Hansen Photography, 2009.; gift of Ann B. Munger, Nora Berwick, and Maria Witte, 2014.; gift of Stephen Goddard, 2016.
Associated people: Neff, Wallace, (1930-)
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