Visual Materials
House Beautiful cover mock-ups, circa 1940s
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House Beautiful cover mock ups
Visual Materials
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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[House Beautiful staff, locations and set-up]
Visual Materials
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.
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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.
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