Rare documents in Marble Room

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  St. James Park, Chester Place

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  Doheny Mansion, 8 Chester Place.

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  Rare documents in Marble Room, Los Angeles, CA

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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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  Photographs of E.L. Doheny's residence and grounds, Chester Place, Los Angeles

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  An album containing 117 photographs with a variety of interior and exterior views of the Doheny mansion and grounds at Chester Place, one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles. The first half of the album is exterior views, showing entrances, ivy-covered walls, plant- and palm-lined walkways, a greenhouse or conservatory, a large garage, and tennis courts. The second half of the album has interior areas, showing lavushly decorated public rooms with heavy furniture, dark woodwork, painted ceilings, animal skin rugs, statues and vases, a grand piano decorated with painted scenes, and multiple coffee/tea sets; a room with a high domed glass ceiling and marble pillars; a billiard room; a dining room shown with and without the table and chairs in place; a room decorated with Native American rugs, a long, feathered headdress, and a stuffed bald eagle; several bedrooms with varying degrees of decoration; multiple bathrooms; and a large, long, empty hall. Only one photograph includes people, a view of an office with two women.

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  Powell residence

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  Exterior and interior views of mansion.

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  Leeds, William, residence [Rancho Moana]

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  Exterior and interior views of ranch house; views of gardens, porches, and pool; views of an observation tower [?]; one view of display cases with maritime memorabilia relating to a ship called the Moana; and one view of a swimming pool that is seemingly unrelated.

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  Art museum cases

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  Views of art museum display cases in situ.

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