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Film sets: photographs and program

Description: Contains 9 gelatin silver photographs and one souvenir program, all featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens." Six of the photographs depict the set of Romeo and Juliet (1936); four are by Yoch (Item 2) and two are by unidentified photographers (Items 1 and 3). Three photographs by Fred R. Parrish depict the set of Gone With The Wind (Items 4-7, approximately 1939); the souvenir program is also from this film.
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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.

Film projects, residential projects A-H

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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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Correspondence, photographs, and sketches

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Folder 1 contains photocopies of 24 pages of correspondence, an agreement, two snapshots, one publicity photograph, and three later prints of sketches documenting Yoch and Council's work on The Garden of Allah. The correspondence includes handwritten letters from Yoch to George Cukor and David O. Selznick written from Algeria and Rome and a letter from Selznick to J. J. Cohn urging that they engage Yoch for this project because "the landscaping must be simply magnificent, as so much of the story depends on the beauty of the garden." Folder 2 contains materials documenting work on Gone with the Wind, including a construction estimate, set list, three photographs, and one drawing. Folder 3 contains three publicity photographs for The Good Earth and Folder 4 a publicity photograph for How Green Was My Valley. Folder 5 contains 20 photographs depicting design work for Romeo and Juliet.

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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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Sets B and C

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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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Presentation photographs

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Album with suede binding containing 17 gelatin silver photographs of Yoch and Council's work on George Cukor's estate. The photographs, by Fred R. Dapprich, depict exterior views including the pool, statues, patios, and gardens; several of the photographs are signed by Dapprich. Most of the photographs have no captions.

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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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