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    Ellen [Sheridan] collection [of folk art]

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    Views of folk art in situ (presumably Ms. Sheridan's residence).

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    Folk art [collection] at Ellen's [Sheridan]

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    Views of folk art objects, many in situ in Ms. Sheridan's residence. Includes religious and non-religious pieces.

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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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  • Ellen Sheridan Japanese Art

    Ellen Sheridan Japanese Art

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    Views of the Ellen Sheridan Collection of Japanese Arts and Crafts exhibition, and of individual pieces on display, at Barnsdall Arts and Crafts Center, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

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  • Rare documents in Marble Room

    Rare documents in Marble Room

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    Interior of the rotunda in the Doheny Chester Place mansion display cases, and views of various documents in those display cases.

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  • Set of art appreciation posters created by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

    Set of art appreciation posters created by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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    One set of art appreciation posters created by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926. The set of 55 posters is housed within 5 large envelopes; there are 23 different posters, with duplicate copies of 9 of the 23. All of the posters contain black and white reproductions of photographs. Accompanying the posters within the first folder is a large piece of brown wrapping paper on which is written in ms.: "Mabel Spofford; from Boston Museum of Fine Arts, received April 7. 1956 art appreciation posters." The posters vary in size, but all are large. What follows is a listing of the contents of each envelope; the title at the top of the poster has been transcribed. Env. 1: English Decorative Arts; European Decorative Arts; Massachusetts Silver of the 17th and 18th Centuries; European Furniture and Interior Architecture; Objects in the Museum of Fine Arts- English History; American Furniture and Interior Architecture 1675-1800. Env. 2: Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Aegean and Archaic Greek. Sheet VI. 1926; Appreciation of Art. Greek. Sheet VII; Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Roman. Sheet VIII. 1926 (2 copies); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Greek and Roman Art (13 copies) Env. 3: Appreciation of Art. Architecture. Sheet II. (7 copies) Env. 4: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Egyptian Art (7 copies); [Untitled poster of Egyptian Art] Env. 5: Appreciation of Art. Lettering. Sheet I (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Prehistoric. Sheet II (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Early Christian and Byzantine. Sheet IX. 1926; Appreciation of Art. Renaissance. Sheet XIII; Appreciation of Art. Romanesque. Sheet XI. (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Gothic. Sheet XII. 1926 (2 copies); Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Colonial. Sheet XVI. 1926; Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Indian-Chinese-Japanese. Sheet V. 1926; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Art of the Ancient Near East; Appreciation of Art. Grade IX. Assyrian. Sheet IV. 1926. Title supplied by cataloger.

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