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    Home furnishing

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    "This book has been written to serve as a textbook for classes in home planning and furnishing, as a practical book for homemakers and as a book of general information for interior decorators"--Preface, page v.

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    Home Furnishings

    Manuscripts

    1 item: 19-pp. script headed "The Motivator."

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    [Home furnishings]

    Visual Materials

    Views of house furnishings.

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    [Home furnishings]

    Visual Materials

    Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.

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  • B. A. Atkinson & Co. house furnishers

    B. A. Atkinson & Co. house furnishers

    Visual Materials

    Image of an aerial view of the Boston, Massachusetts, city block corner of Washington St. and Common St. with a complex of buildings offering furnishings sold by B.A. Atkinson & Company; variety of horse-drawn vehicles visible in streets surrounding the buildings; vignette of a comfortably furnished home interior at top left; full-length portrait of owner Byron A. Atkinson wearing a coat and holding a top hat at right.

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