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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Contains the Garden Instruction Book plus two folders' worth of assorted files. The book covers topics including general garden information (soils, climate, humus); maintenance; types of plants; maintaining the health of the garden; compost; alternations and successions; cutting gardens and potted plants; a garden calendar; and special directions. Per note written by the executor of Florence Yoch's estate, Connie Ward, one of Yoch and Council's clients referred to this book as "the sacred black book." Related materials include a folder containing a garden calendar and various instructions, such as care and maintenance of soil; pest management; and formulas for cement mixtures for colored concrete flagstones.
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Includes three books: Edith Wharton, Italian Villas and their Gardens, London; John Lane, the Bodlyhead, 1st Edition (1904) Winifred Starr Dobyns, California Gardens, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st Edition (1931) H. Luckenbach, Kunst und Geschichte. 4. Teil: Von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart (1938). Dobyns's book featured more photographs of work by Yoch and Council than by other landscape architects.
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Contains 3-ring binder with detailed information about projects, materials, and other matters pertinent to Yoch and Council's business; entries are dated from 1925-1941. The book, which includes client, materials, and features indexes, is arranged alphabetically by client last name or by material/feature name. In addition to itemized information about projects including costs, plant lists, and materials, the book contains instructions, specifications, and other pertinent information. Examples include a recipe labeled Bleaching Teak, specifications for features such as plant boxes built for various clients, and an overview of building laws (all filed under B). Also included are lists of clients for whom Yoch and Council performed particular jobs, such as designing pebble pavements and more.
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Contains clippings and tear sheets, most illustrated with photographs, about Yoch and Council's work from publications including The House Beautiful (1927, 1930); Arts & Decoration (1928); House & Garden (1928); Western Florist and Nurseryman (1930); California Arts & Architecture (1927, 1930, 1931, 1937); American Home (1937); Los Angeles Times Magazine (1950); and Sunset (1951). Also includes bibliography of articles featuring Yoch and Council's work, and two unidentified clippings, one of a home and one of a redwood plant box and fence.
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2 boxes containing typed index cards recording names of 165 clients and information about projects undertaken chiefly from 1927-1932; some of the clients have multiple projects listed.
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Projects and subjects depicted in Box 56A include Kaufmann, Louther Adobe, Millar, Minor, Kellogg, Morse, Murphy, Nuttal: Casa Alvarado, O'Melveny, Orange County Park, Oswald, Park, Pasadena Public Library, Perin, Pitcairn, Romeo and Juliet, Florence Yoch Sampler, Schultz, Selznick, Shipton Court, Shoshone Falls, Slemons, Smith, Stanton, and Sturgis. Slides in Box 56B include Sturgis, Taylor, Florence Yoch: Tara, Tiles and Rocks, Unitarian Church, Valentine, Van de Kamp, von Hasseln, and Vroman's. The slides in Box 56C depict various aspects of the Warner estate and Yoch and Council's projects there, and those in Box 56D continue with slides depicting the Warner estate, along with the projects Wilshire Country Club, Women's Athletic Club, and Frank Work house. Box 56D also contains slides depicting Yoch and Council's residences in Carmel and San Marino, California (the latter on Roanoke Road) and Florence Yoch's travel photographs and sketches. Slides in Box 56E depict Florence Yoch's travel sketches; account book; the "black album" (garden instructions); Yoch and Council; Yoch's parents; Santa Ana; Laguna Beach; Florence Yoch's notes; Jackson Ranch; and Il Brolino. Box 56F contains slides depicting Il Brolino and Yoch and Council's office account book.
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