Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The Yosemite trip book
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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
Views of desert landscapes, including Yosemite Valley, the Ahwahnee Hotel (see project 1180), and Parker's children and unidentified individuals.
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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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Visual Materials
The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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Manuscripts
This manuscript is a collection of observations by Brantz Mayer concerning the Yosemite Valley. Written on a variety of sizes of paper, the majority of these being printed stationary for A. L. Bancroft & Company, these notes are largely descriptive with a poetic bent. Many are titled, such as "Yosemite Silence & Seclusion," "Yosemite's Water," "Yosemite Power of Perspective," and "Yosemite & Big Trees." Mayer writes in glowing fashion of the majesty of the meadows, mountains, and people of the area, and declares its overall beauty "unphotographable." Also included is a one-page printed pamphlet advertising a newly opened trail from Yosemite to Glacier Point, which proclaims "When you have been to GLACIER POINT you have seen the Yosemite Valley." The pamphlet also contains altitude measurements at various Yosemite Valley waterfalls, which are described by both Indian and American names.
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