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Minor English domestic architecture
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The collection contains mostly architectural scenes in southern California taken by architectural photographer William M. Clarke between circa 1920 and 1950. The bulk of the collection focuses on residential and business projects in Los Angeles for Architectural Digest magazine from about 1920 through the 1930s. Among the architecture represented in the collection are buildings and landscapes created by some of Los Angeles' most distinguished architects and designers, including Myron Hunt, Reginald Johnson, Gordon Kaufmann, Roland Coate, Wallace Neff, John & Donald Parkinson, George Washington Smith, and Paul Williams. The landscape designs of A. E. Hanson, Lucille Council & Florence Yoch, Katherine Bashford and Paul Thiene are well represented in the collection also. Some of the buildings represented are the Atheneaum at Caltech, USC Hall of Philosophy, La Quinta Resort, Hope Ranch, W. K. Kellogg Ranch, Scripps College, Royal Laundry, the Arthur Bourne house, the Harold Lloyd Estate and the Catalina Island Casino. Includes many homes in the Pasadena area, as well as Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Montecito. Other points of interest are Bertram Goodhue's California Building for the 1915 Pan-California Exposition in Balboa Park, and several I. Magnin department stores in California. There are several unidentified residences and unidentified buildings scattered throughout the collection. The original 4 x 5 inch glass plate and film negatives are housed in 129 boxes; corresponding copy prints have been made for all images and are available for research.
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Architect: Unidentified Description: Various English style homes with thatched and shingle roofs [England?]. No copy prints for positive plates. These photographs were probably taken during Clarke's trip to England for the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company [c. 1923-25]. His work, Minor English domestic architecture: being a collection of plates from photographs made by Wm. M. Clarke of the cottages and lesser domestic work of the English country-side, in three volumes, was published c. 1923-25. Even though none of these photographs are in that work, they are very similar in content and composition.
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