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Cover, Lucile Council portfolio
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Sets B and C
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Two sets of photographs possibly belonging to Council. Set B, a disbound album, contains 18 photographs and has no covers. Set C contains approximately 50 items on 38 pages, including art reproductions, maps, prints, postcards, and snapshots; text on cover is "Lucile Council, 1432 Wayne Avenue, South Pasadena, California." Box 9 also includes one photograph depicting the Villa Borghese in Rome, with handwritten note by Yoch, dated 1964; it was found loose with Sets B and C.
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Johnston: Portfolio (partial)
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Contains one leather portfolio with title page and one black and white drawing by Harrison Clarke. The title page is a hand-lettered draft that includes editing marks.
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Council, W. H
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Contains one plan in pencil and wash by Lucile Council; the drawing was featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens."
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Jardines de España por Santiago Rusiñol: Portfolio of photographic plates
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Disbound portfolio published by Renacimiento, Madrid, Spain, containing 34 images, chiefly color photographs depicting garden features and landscape architecture from Spain; some images include captions.
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Ground cover
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This collection contains the professional papers of American landscape architect Florence Yoch (1890-1972) relating to her work designing landscapes and gardens primarily in Southern California, but also in Northern California, Mexico, and other locales, chiefly with her partner Lucile Council (1898-1964) and their firm Yoch and Council. The collection includes approximately 2700 photographs; approximately 250 drawings and renderings, including 163 rolled drawings; approximately 600 postcards; office records; travel journals; research materials; writings; and artifacts. The materials date from 1869 to 2013, with the bulk of the collection relating to Yoch's work from 1918 until shortly before her death and representing 100 of her over 250 projects. The collection also includes research and administrative files of James J. Yoch, Florence Yoch's cousin, comprising photographs, approximately 2500 slides, notes, articles, bibliographies, correspondence, and publicity materials for his book, Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Sagapress, Inc., New York, 1989) and for the exhibition he curated with Eric T. Haskell of Scripps College, "Personal Edens: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch," which opened at the Huntington Library in 1992 before traveling to other locations.
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Arzner - Council
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This collection contains the professional papers of American landscape architect Florence Yoch (1890-1972) relating to her work designing landscapes and gardens primarily in Southern California, but also in Northern California, Mexico, and other locales, chiefly with her partner Lucile Council (1898-1964) and their firm Yoch and Council. The collection includes approximately 2700 photographs; approximately 250 drawings and renderings, including 163 rolled drawings; approximately 600 postcards; office records; travel journals; research materials; writings; and artifacts. The materials date from 1869 to 2013, with the bulk of the collection relating to Yoch's work from 1918 until shortly before her death and representing 100 of her over 250 projects. The collection also includes research and administrative files of James J. Yoch, Florence Yoch's cousin, comprising photographs, approximately 2500 slides, notes, articles, bibliographies, correspondence, and publicity materials for his book, Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972 (Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Sagapress, Inc., New York, 1989) and for the exhibition he curated with Eric T. Haskell of Scripps College, "Personal Edens: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch," which opened at the Huntington Library in 1992 before traveling to other locations.
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