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Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Party

Description: Candid images taken at a party at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona (now the Fairplex). Includes one image of Robert Stanton and images of House Beautiful staff and designers involved in the Arts of Daily Living Exhibition. Also includes images of a diver in an aquarium and details of the Exhibition kitchen.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1954
Call number: photCL MLP 1837
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog

[Arts of Daily Living Exhibition]

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Miscellaneous images of several room displays from the exhibition including the kitchen, an example of an inexpensive living room, and two bathrooms. Also includes several images of a Bartron Barbecue model grill and rotisserie.

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Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Fine Arts Building

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Exterior of the Fine Arts Building showing the exhibition sign and the building's sculpture garden.

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Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Malarky & Malarky Plywood Co

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Residential wood paneling and cabinetry by the manufacturer Malarky & Malarky Plywood Co. Taken at of the room set ups of The Arts of Daily Living Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Fair. Includes a living room and den by architect John deKoven Hill, a bedroom-dressing room suite by Henry Eggers, and a lanai by Albert Ely Ives and Robert Ansteth.

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Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Party, Pomona, CA

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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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[Arts of Daily Living Exhibition]

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Images of the "Bathroom for a beautiful white haired lady", "Bathroom for a man," and the living-dining room with Robsjohn-Gibbings designed furniture.

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Arts of Daily Living Exhibition: Living room

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Images of a large living room with a seating area, work area with desk, a piano, hi–fi equipment, and television. Adjoining the room is a patio with barbecue.

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