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Correspondence and documents

Description: Correspondence, documents and drawings related to a residence built in 1936 for Leland K. Whittier and his wife, Laura L. (Pike) Whittier, in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. Includes correspondence from architect Roland Coate and landscape architects Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, along with drawings of the garden plan. Also included are invoices and receipts for china, silverware, rugs, light fixtures, furniture and other household decor. The invoices are chiefly addressed to Laura L. Whittier and include receipts for several fur coats. Some notes refer to a decorator, Miss Gordon Kaufmann. Three black-and-white snapshot photographs show the house exterior in 1940, which was an example of American Colonial Revival residential architecture. The house later gained renown as the home of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart from 1952 until Bogart's death in 1957.
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Production date: approximately 1936-1945.
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Garden design plan and color rendering by Florence Yoch and Lucile Council

Visual Materials

Correspondence, documents and drawings related to a residence built in 1936 for Leland K. Whittier and his wife, Laura L. (Pike) Whittier, in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. Includes correspondence from architect Roland Coate and landscape architects Florence Yoch and Lucile Council, along with drawings of the garden plan. Also included are invoices and receipts for china, silverware, rugs, light fixtures, furniture and other household decor. The invoices are chiefly addressed to Laura L. Whittier and include receipts for several fur coats. Some notes refer to a decorator, Miss Gordon Kaufmann. Three black-and-white snapshot photographs show the house exterior in 1940, which was an example of American Colonial Revival residential architecture. The house later gained renown as the home of Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart from 1952 until Bogart's death in 1957.

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Leland K. Whittier residence collection

Visual Materials

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Personal Papers (UNPROCESSED)

Manuscripts

This series contains photographs, negatives, and slides from Don Bachardy's childhood and adolescence as well as trips he took nationally and internationally later in life. A large portion of the materials are snapshots that Bachardy took in the 1950s when he attended film premieres and other events in the entertainment industry. Many of the snapshots include images of Bachardy with Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall. There are also drawings created by Bachardy's brother Ted.

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Correspondence and financial documents

Manuscripts

The Correspondence and documents series contains correspondence, receipts, invoices, ephemera, and some information about box labels.

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Manuscripts, Documents & Correspondence

Manuscripts

This collection consists of Winston's four volumes of Theatrical Records & Memoranda (1803-1816, 1820-1830), research material for his work on the lives of various performers in the form of autograph notes, clippings and printed material. The remainder of the collection consists of manuscripts, letters by various British performers and theatre people, and documents related to the daily running of theatres, such as receipts, invoices, statements of accounts and cheques. Among the subjects of the research material and correspondents are: Tony Aston, John Braham, William Dunn, Mary King, Elizabeth Leak, Henry Lee, Louis Leoni Lee, George William Reeve, Frederick Reynolds, Sarah Butcher Ward, Thomas Achurch Ward, James Prescott Warde, Mary Anne Welsh and Thomas Welsh.

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Agreements -- Partnership Agreement

Manuscripts

Between Leland K. Whittier, Paul Whittier, Donald W. Whittier, Helen L. Woodward, Laura P. Whittier, and J.P. Auchenbach regarding the business of exploring, drilling, producing, and marketing oil, gas, and other hydrocarbon substance

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