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Articles and tear sheets

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1927-1937, 1950-1951, undated
Call number: archYoch
Creator: Yoch, Florence(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of James J. Yoch and Nancy Yoch, 2015.
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Periodicals

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Contains complete issues of periodicals featuring Yoch and Council's work, including The Western Architect: Architecture and Allied Arts (May, 1925); California Arts & Architecture (March, 1931); and Pencil Points: A Journal for the Drafting Room (August, 1931).

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Asche residence, Pasadena, Calif

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Includes photocopies of a planting plan and of two pages from a California Arts and Architecture magazine piece on Yoch and Council's landscape design for the residence (April, 1939).

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Projects and subjects Kaufmann - Florence Yoch account book

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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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Research on Yoch and Council office records

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Includes photocopies of Yoch and Council's office account book and notebooks, along with photocopied sketches from these that appeared in Landscaping the American Dream: The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972

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E. Photographs and postcards

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Contains five gelatin silver photographs, nine postcards, and one drawing featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens." Two of the photographs are portraits of Yoch taken in 1915 and 1945 and three depict Yoch and Council's Pasadena residence. The postcards, some pictorial and some photographic, depict various views of landscape features, chiefly in Europe, and were exhibited as one item (Item 9, approximately 1915-1950); two of the postcards, including one showing rubber trees in Algeria, are annotated.

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B. Correspondence

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Contains three letters between Jean Walton, Florence Yoch, and Lucile Council, plus two pages of handwritten notes from a trip to England. A letter Yoch sent to Walton in February, 1964 describes Council's illness and death, and includes a card for the memorial service.

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