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Moffat [family portraits]
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Moffat [family portraits]
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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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Group family photographs and miscellaneous individuals (11 items)
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Includes six snapshots of group portraits of Opid family members, presumably in Poland and Southern California, as well as one card photograph, circa 1900, containing two images identified as the "Bendas." There are also five images of miscellaneous individuals including three portraits of unidentified men, presumably Opid relatives from Poland; a photograph of three hunters standing next to a dead boar; and one of three individuals identified as "The Serrano family, worked for Helena Modjeska."
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Portraits
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Consists of portraits of various groups and individuals; men; women; children and young adults; and family groups. Portraits are chiefly traditional studio portraits, as well as some portraits with multiple views and images taken outside. Almost all of the sitters are unidentified; only two photographs identify their subject by name (Peggy Ryan, Items 405 and 406) Images consist of group portraits, including Boy Scout troops and a Boy Scout band, lodge members from an unidentified lodge, and a congregation outside a Christian church bungalow (Items 87-93); and portraits of unidentified men (Items 106-120 and 184-322), women (Items 121-151, 323-400, and 777), children and young adults (Items 152-156, 686-776), and families, including couples and parents with children (Items 157-179, 778). A few images depict South Pasadena High School students, including girls' and boys' sports teams, students in costumes, and class photographs (Items 97-105). A few photographs depict ministers (Items 106-109) and women dancers (Items 133-141). Many photographs feature various styles of clothing, including wedding and confirmation dresses; military, housekeeper's or Red Cross uniforms; graduation gowns; and other depictions of formal as well as informal wear. Also includes single images of a woman artist at work (Item 127), a multi-ethnic group portrait (Item 162), an African American woman (Item 777), and a Japanese American family (Item 778), as well as a few photographs from drawings (Items 179-181).
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Edison News, Victory Garden, Montebello, P. V. Moffat, F. V. Lucas
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Edison News, Victory Garden, Montebello, P. V. Moffat, F. V. Lucas. [variant of 05-51171]
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Avila family, various portraits
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A collection of photographs and documents dating from 1859 to 1917, related to the Avila and Fraters families, their friends, and other Californio families of Los Angeles. The photographs are mostly studio portraits of individuals and family groups dating from the 1860s to the1890s. The collection belonged to Joseph August Fraters (1873-1936) and Petra Avila Fraters (1873-1951), and includes their wedding portrait (1898), portraits of Petra, their children Joaquin and Ysabel, and their house in Los Angeles. There are also three framed photographs of Petra and her parents Felipe Avila (1832-1900) and Prudenciana Ruiz de Avila, and four tintypes. Other people who appear in photographs are: Ernest (Anastacio) Avila; Francisca Avila; Francisco Avila; Hernaldo Avila with his wife Maud C. Gorham (born in Iowa) and four children; Lugarda and Elizabeth Avila (sisters); Luisa Avila; Tomas Avila; Susana Machado Bernard (1839-1907), with five children; T.J. Cordoza; Ernest Gibelin Du Py; Maria Elena Hurlbert; Felipe Lugo; Petra Lugo (Vignes); Serafina Macias; Sacramenta Moulton (daughter of Elijah T. Moulton); Christina Palomares; Concepcion Palomares; Francisca "Pancha" Sepulveda; Ruperto Serrano; and Hortense Yorba. There are several unidentified portraits of men, women and children. Other materials in the collection include Petra Avila's scrapbook autograph album, 1889 to 1896, which has handwritten notes, poems, and drawings by family and friends, with color decals of love sentiments attached to some pages. The signers added their Los Angeles neighborhoods after their names: Compton, Vernon, Florence, Green Meadows and Tajuata. There are also approximately 40 family documents and 14 programs for minstrel shows and concerts organized and performed by San Quentin Prison inmates, 1900 to 1903.
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