Rare Books
Tahitian holiday
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
The Tahitian Apartments (118 Hillcrest) [with 9 variants] one variant is a 4x5 negative
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Manuscripts
A man wearing a sarong and hat stands in front of hut and palms.
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Manuscripts
Four nude young women stand on knoll near shoreline with ocean in background.
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Manuscripts
Four young Tahitian women in white dresses and flowers in their hair sit on steps of house. One holds an accordion, one holds an unidentified instrument.
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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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