Visual Materials

C. Research Notes

Description: Contains scores of Yoch's handwritten and typed research notes on a wide range of topics, many written on scraps of paper. Except where noted, titles are from Yoch's original files; additionally, alphanumeric classifications written on original folders have been copied onto the new folders.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1942-1958, undated
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.

Quotations from literature and history

Visual Materials

Yoch's original folder title was "Quotations - literature, history, books."

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Series VI. James Yoch Papers

Visual Materials

Contains James Yoch's files relating to his exhibition, Personal Edens; his book, Landscaping the American Dream; and his scholarly research on landscape architecture. The files include materials concerning publication of his manuscript and planning for the exhibition; and research files in the form of notes, articles, clippings, photographs, drawings, and approximately 2500 slides regarding Yoch and Council's projects and design work. See also Box 33, Folders 28-38 for 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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Cutting garden, important specialties, and plant lists for California homes

Visual Materials

Yoch's original folder title was "Cutting garden, important specialties, every home list for California."

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Doerr residence, Pasadena, Calif

Visual Materials

Includes original and two copies of letter from Yoch to Doerr containing horticultural and garden instructions (1961); plus eight pages of Yoch's handwritten notes on gardening, some on small pieces of paper and one on the back of a bank check. Also contains photograph by George Waters of Mexican statue in garden (1988).

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Research on reference and subject files

Visual Materials

Includes prints and photocopies of photographs and drawings of Yoch and Council's residences, garden and horticultural instructions; and various projects including Perin's Gift Shop (Serendipity Antique Shop), the Stewart residence (Il Brolino), and James Yoch's reconstructions of various drawings and plans. Also includes subject files concerning Casa Alvarado, Mexico; Harrison Clarke; Helena Modjeska; and Pasadena Public Library; as well as later prints of various drawings and plans by Yoch and Council.

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Photographs of sites and features

Visual Materials

Album contains approximately 470 gelatin silver snapshots depicting various views of landscapes and buildings in Europe and Mexico. The album has "Office" on the cover, and photographs are numbered by Yoch and Council according to alphanumeric classification. Some of the photographs are loose.

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