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House Beautiful cover mock-ups, circa 1940s

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    House Beautiful cover mock ups

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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.

    photCL MLP

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    Helen Koues tear sheets, circa 1940s

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    photCL MLP Box 205

  • [House Beautiful staff, locations and set-up]

    [House Beautiful staff, locations and set-up]

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    Miscellaneous snapshots of House Beautiful staff members posing or at work on shoots. House Beautiful staff member Frances Heard appears most often. Also includes an image of Robert and Virginia Stanton, Frances Heard, Cliff and Jean May, and others at the Stanton residence in Carmel–by–the–Sea. Includes one shot of pool at Dewey Donnell residence.

    photCL MLP 4111

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    Reports, Publications – mock-up versions of final report covers

    Manuscripts

    Professional and personal papers of Alexander Pope. The bulk of the materials are administrative in nature and format, such as letters, memos and reports. There is a considerable amount of political ephemera, legislation, litigation and published research documents, as well as photographs. The materials related to the implementation of Proposition 13 are the highlight of the collection.

    mssPope papers

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    Tear sheet presentation album #1, circa 1945

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    photCL MLP Box 205

  • Tear sheet presentation album #2, circa 1945

    Tear sheet presentation album #2, circa 1945

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    photCL MLP Box 205