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Ideas for hillside homes

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Description: A collection of ideas for anyone wishing to buy, remodel, or landscape a hillside home. Includes a list of plants used for such varied landscaping purposes as wind resistance and fire and erosion control.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1956]
Call number: 654892
Provenance: From the Hong family library.; Signed on title page by Roger Hong.
Dimensions: 28 cm
Associated people: Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,); Hong, Mabel, (1907-1998,); Hong, Roger S., (1941-2006,)
Associated organization: Sunset Magazine (Firm)
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Planning and landscaping hillside homes

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A collection of ideas for anyone wishing to buy, remodel, or landscape a hillside home. Includes a list of plants used for such varied landscaping purposes as wind resistance and fire and erosion control.

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Our home on the hillside, Dansville, Liv. Co. N.Y. : The largest hygienic water cure in the world

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Image of an elevated street view of the four-story hydrotherapy spa Our Home on the Hill Side and nearby houses on a verdant hillside in Dansville in Livingston County, New York, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages on the street below.

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This single-circuit transmission tower stands on a hillside overlooking Dam #7 and Redinger Lake

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This single-circuit transmission tower stands on a hillside overlooking Dam #7 and Redinger Lake in the background. Towers of this design were pioneered in 1913 for the original Big Creek development. Today, 220kV transmission lines on several different rights-of-way feed Big Creek power into the Edison system.

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Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue group portrait, Hillside Farm. 1925

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Over one hundred men pose for this panoramic photograph of the Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue at Hillside Farm. The men sit and stand in an area with American flags and a long Hudson-Essex banner hung overhead. Picnic tables and food servers are in the background on the far right. The ms. note on the negative spells barbecue "barbacue".

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Map of Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee-Ga or the Territories of the People of the Long House in 1720 : exhibiting the home country of the Iroquois with the aboriginal names of their villages, lakes, rivers, streams & ancient localities, and the courses of their principal trails / by Lewis H. Morgan

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No old shelf mark. A key for vowel sounds gives a clue to pronunciation of the Iroquois words. Many of these were modified and adopted as place names, now entirely unpronounceable to anyone not from upstate New York. This map was part of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or, Iroquois, by Lewis Henry Morgan, RB 94637. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

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Correspondence, photographs, and sketches

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Folder 1 contains photocopies of 24 pages of correspondence, an agreement, two snapshots, one publicity photograph, and three later prints of sketches documenting Yoch and Council's work on The Garden of Allah. The correspondence includes handwritten letters from Yoch to George Cukor and David O. Selznick written from Algeria and Rome and a letter from Selznick to J. J. Cohn urging that they engage Yoch for this project because "the landscaping must be simply magnificent, as so much of the story depends on the beauty of the garden." Folder 2 contains materials documenting work on Gone with the Wind, including a construction estimate, set list, three photographs, and one drawing. Folder 3 contains three publicity photographs for The Good Earth and Folder 4 a publicity photograph for How Green Was My Valley. Folder 5 contains 20 photographs depicting design work for Romeo and Juliet.

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