Visual Materials

Set A

Description: Contains approximately 75 gelatin silver prints showing buildings and landscapes in Italy, chiefly reproductions from Italian museums. Most of the images include captions, and some pages contain handwritten captions and notes, including about costs and types of materials for items depicted.
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.; Objects (boxes 42-45) do not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.

Set A

Visual Materials

Album belonging to Council contains approximately 700 gelatin silver snapshots of various garden features and sites, chiefly in Europe but also in Mexico, including Casa Alvarado. Most pages contain captions.

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Women's Athletic Club, Los Angeles, Calif

Visual Materials

Folder 18 contains 11 photographs depicting the roof garden and other exterior views, including five gelatin silver prints by Padilla Studios; five snapshots depicting a tree being hoisted to the roof of the building; and one mounted gelatin silver print by an unidentified photographer. Also includes hand-lettered portfolio. Folder 19 contains 14 later prints, 12 depicting construction and other exterior views and two showing pages from a 1925 ledger listing costs for the job.

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Set B

Visual Materials

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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Presentation photographs

Visual Materials

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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Film sets: photographs and program

Visual Materials

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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Johnston Botanical Garden (B. F. Johnston), Los Mochis, Mexico

Visual Materials

Folder 17 contains 11 photographs, including one gelatin silver print by William Aplin (1958) and 10 snapshots, some containing captions identifying plants. Also contains four prints of renderings by Harrison Clarke; these are copies of some of the artwork featured in the exhibition, "Personal Edens." Folder 18 includes two original pencil drawings depicting garden designs, possibly by Yoch.

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