Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
![[Candid photographs of House Beautiful staff]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4KXVUHB%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
Visual Materials
Candid and casual images of House Beautiful staff and possibly home owners doing recreational activities or setting up for photo shoots. Includes candid images taken at the Graf residence (see project 1359), the Ruskin residence (see project 1390), and Taliesin West. Also includes an exterior shot of Price Tower.
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Visual Materials
The House Beautiful Editorial and Staff Assignments subseries consist of 2,428 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, 1947-1959 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker for the magazine. This subseries contains individual projects that were created or compiled for House Beautiful editors and staff members: garden writer Alice Dustan; home furnishings editor Frances Taylor Heard; garden editor Joseph Howland; horticulture writer Jean Lawson; family editor Marva Shearer; and contributor Ellen Sheridan. The largest section consists of projects for Joseph E. Howland. These are almost exclusively images of residential landscaping including many examples of the work of landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church.
Subseries II.5.
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Elizabeth Gordon and others informally gathered in the backyard of the Trousdale residence. Other people are likely House Beautiful staff members. Some images include a maid in uniform.
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Candid shots of House Beautiful staff, on location for assignments or sight-seeing.
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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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Visual Materials
Informal shots of House Beautiful staff rolling out fake "snow" on the front steps and roof of the Pace Setter house. Includes exterior shots of the house. Joe Howland is seen in some images--at center of (002) and on roof in (004), (005).
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