Visual Materials

Various Projects

Description: Presentation album containing gelatin silver prints depicting many of Yoch and Council's garden projects, including work for Mrs. Howard Huntington (1 print); the Women's Athletic Club (1 print); the Misses Davenport (2 prints); F. A. Bovey (3 prints); Mary Stewart (11 prints); Eleanor Hague (1 print); W. K. Knowlton (1 print); Douglas Smith (4 prints); and Mrs. G. W. Gates (6 prints). Also includes 2 uncaptioned photos. Nearly all pages have handwritten captions.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1869, 1906-2013.
Call number: archYoch
Creator: Yoch, Florence(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of James J. Yoch and Nancy Yoch, 2015.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Film projects, residential projects A-H

Visual Materials

Includes James Yoch's research files concerning the films The Garden of Allah, Gone with the Wind, The Good Earth, How Green Was My Valley, and Romeo and Juliet. Also includes his research files concerning Yoch and Council's projects for Arzner; Banning; Bishop; Bixby; Bovey; Bryner/Doerr; Bundy; California Institute of Technology; Casa Abrego Club/Abrego Adobe; Charnley; Colby; W. H. Council; Cukor; Davenport; Davis/Call; Doud; Emery/Von Platen; Fudger (Los Angeles and Beverly Hills); Galli-Curci; Gates; Gillespie Place; Gladwin; Goodell; Griffith; Hague; Haldeman; Hambleton; Heard; and Hoffman.

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Various projects

Visual Materials

Contains negatives removed from film project records including The Garden of Allah, Gone With the Wind, and How Green Was My Valley (Folders 2-4); and from project records for Banning, Bishop, California Institute of Technology, Council, Cukor, Doud, Emery, Galli-Curci, Gates, Griffith, Huntington, Jefferson, Parley A. Johnson, Johnston, Niven, Stewart, Valentine, Vroman's Bookstore, and Warner (Folders 5-20). Also includes negatives for topical projects: millstones, pavements and pebble design, rock, seats and benches, stonework and walls, and trees and tree moving (Folders 21-26). Folder 25 contains negatives of renderings by Harrison Clarke, including for some projects; and Folders 28-38 contain negatives from James Yoch's exhibition, book, and research files, many depicting Yoch and Council's work on various projects, chiefly Warner.

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Projects and subjects Abrego - Johnston

Visual Materials

Projects and subjects depicted in Box 55A include Arden, Arzner, Asche/Hambleton, Bishop, Bixby, Bovey, and Bryner/Doerr. Those in Box 55B continue with Bryner/Doerr and also include Bundy, California Institute of Technology, and Casa Alvarado. Slides in Box 55C include Charnley, Clarke, Colby, Council garden, Crocker/von Platen/Emery, and Cukor. Slides in Box 55D include Cukor, Davenport, Davis/Call, Doud, Episcopal Church, Erdman, Eschman, Florence Yoch Exhibition, Feely/Linda Vista, Flora, and Fry. Slides in Box 55E include Fudger I, Fudger II, Galli-Curci, The Garden of Allah, Gates (C. W.), Gillespie, Gladwin, The Good Earth, Goodell, Griffith, Hague, Haines-Foster, Haldeman, and Hambleton. Slides in Box 55F include Hart, Heard, Hodges, Hoffman, Honeyman, Hotchkis, How Green Was My Valley, Huntington, Jefferson, Jackson, A. Parley Johnson, Reginald Johnson, and Johnston.

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Projects and subjects Kaufmann - Florence Yoch account book

Visual Materials

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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Various B-C

Visual Materials

Contains eight gelatin silver prints and one postcard featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens," for projects including: Bovey (Item 1); California Institute of Technology (Items 2, 4, and 5), Charnley, Pasadena (Item 6), Council (Item 7), and Cukor (Items 8-12). Also includes color rendering of terrace by Harrison Clarke for unidentified project (Item 3). Photographers include Hiller, D. Brown, William M. Clarke, George D. Haight, and Fred R. Dapprich.

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Residences and other

Visual Materials

Contains 84 photographs and three prints of plans, chiefly depicting gardens and interior and exterior views of Yoch and Council's residences in Carmel, Pasadena, and San Marino, California; photographers include George D. Haight, George de Gennaro, and William Aplin. Also includes five undated snapshots, labeled "Arbor Road" by James Yoch; it is unclear whether Yoch and Council resided there.

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