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San Marino, CA 91108
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Location: NW corner of 9th and Spring Streets, Los Angeles, California Job #: 314 Architect/Designer: Aleck Curlett ; Beelman, Claud (or Claude) Format: Manuscripts Description: Photocopy of cost breakdown sheet.
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Location: NW corner of 9th and Spring Streets, Los Angeles, California Job #: 314 Architect/Designer: Curlett, Aleck ; Beelman, Claud (or Claude) Photographer/Artist: Dwyer Studios, L.A. Format: Photographic prints Description: Exterior progress shots. Other buildings to be seen in this group: California Public Market Building to the right of the Garland Bldg. (Majestic Theater) to the left.
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Image of a street view of Republic Pictures Studios in Studio City, California, with automobiles parked on the street and palm trees.
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This film depicts Maynard Parker at work on various assignments for House Beautiful and other clients, including Ford Times. Footage includes Parker and others staging shoots in preparation for photographing. The film is spliced together from trips taken over six years of work. The places shown in this film include: Maynard Parker residence in Echo Park, Los Angeles; Carmel (James Residence #1436); Alcatraz, San Francisco; Palm Springs (Thomas Davis residence #1393; El Dorado Country Club #1923); Scottsdale, Arizona (Charles Montooth residence #1501); Taliesin West with Anne Parker, Carolyn Murray and various unidentified people; Hearst Castle; Alamo, Texas; Aldon Dow residence, Michigan (#1384); Model home designed by Ladd and Kelsey in Laguna Niguel, California (#0620); Mazatlan. People include: Maynard Parker photographing and setting up equipment, including one scene in which he is on a forklift; Annie Parker; Carolyn Murray; Robert and Jean Stanton; Douglas Baylis; Joe Howland; Edward Huntsman-Trout; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings.
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Panoramic view of Palm Springs, California, showing various buildings and houses, trees, gardens, and lawns. Mountain ranges are on either side of the photograph, and the desert in the background. The rounded roof of a building says "Palm Springs" and another sign says "Palm Springs __" (center, left).
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