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Florence Yoch papers
Series II. Professional Papers
E. Photograph Albums
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Visual Materials

Souvenir Postcard Albums

Description

Set of four volumes belonging to Yoch with postcards from Europe, Mexico, and Africa, some containing correspondence or annotations. Three albums have indexes; the volumes are labeled "F.Y." with numbers 1-4.

Volume 1 contains approximately 180 postcards from Africa, Austria, Belgium, and England, several with brief handwritten annotations (65 pages). Volume 2 contains approximately 180 postcards from France, Germany, Holland, and Hungary (50 pages). Volume 3 contains approximately 390 photographs of Italy, Mallorca, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland (98 pages); the album includes several loose items. Volume 4 contains approximately 170 items, including postcards and photographs depicting landscapes, flowers, people, missions, exteriors and interiors of homes, artwork, statues and frescoes, and other imagery; many of the works shown are from the Museo Nationale, and several photographs are probably by Yoch and Council (45 pages).

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Date

Approximately 1915-1967

Call number

archYoch

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Yoch, Florence(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of James J. Yoch and Nancy Yoch, 2015.

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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Objects (boxes 42-45) do not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.

Associated people

Aplin, William, (1938-2018,)

Bashford, Katherine, (1938-2018,)

Clark, E. Harrison,

Clarke, William M.,

Council, Lucile,

Dapprich, Fred R.,

Haight, George D.,

Hiller,

Yoch, Florence,

Yoch, James J.,

Yoch, James J.,

Associated organizations

George D. Haight Architectural Photographers,

Hiller Studios,

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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. Photograph Albums
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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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E. Photograph Albums
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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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E. Travel Journals
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Includes four travel journals containing Yoch's sketches and notes on places visited in Europe and Africa (Items 1-4) and one hardcover volume of Yoch's handwritten travel notes (Item 5, 349 pages). The travel journals, which were featured in the exhibition "Personal Edens," contain drawings and notes on various landscape design features in places including Italy and England (Item 1, 1922, 50 pages); Spain, Brussels, and North Africa (Item 2, 1924 and 1935, 28 pages); Spain and Switzerland (Item 3, approximately 1924, 27 pages); and England and Spain (Item 4, approximately 1924, 51 pages). Notably, Item 2, which is labeled "Old Travel Sketches - FY" on the front cover, contains a list of plants of North Africa dated 1935 and sketches for the landscaping for the film, The Garden of Allah; and Item 4 includes two typed pages of lists of flowers. Item 5, dated 1920, contains indexes on countries and on some topics, several pasted-in maps and other materials, and inserted notes pages; the item is extremely fragile.
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Bound photograph album containing gelatin silver snapshots of buildings, landscapes, and garden features chiefly in Mexico, North Africa, and Spain, but also in other European countries; the album includes an index. Pages 3, 4, and 12 contain pasted-in notes by Yoch about a project for Harriet Doerr.
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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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