Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Two portraits of Maynard L. Parker; one image shows Parker photographing Pacifica furniture (Frances Heard in background) at Jackson's furniture store in Oakland, CA for House Beautiful in 1953 (project 1926); the other shows Parker photographing the bedroom of the Hilda Boldt Weber residence in 1939 (project 0255).
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"Annie & Maynard. Trip from Los Angeles to San Antonio – Tom Slick & Halff houses for H.B. – to Fayetteville, Bentonville & Ft. Smith, Ark. Rex Smith, Klusmeir & homes – Dodge City, Kas, Denver, Pete.Club & Pinehurst C.C. & Salt Lake City to do the Beehive House & back to L.A. by way of Las Vegas." This film depicts Maynard Parker at work on various assignments for House Beautiful, including the Pace Setter House of 1961 in San Antonio, Texas (#1805); Klusmeier residence (#1472); Staging the Tom Slick House (#1409); Beehive House in Salt Lake City, Utah (#0158). Views include driving across country and visiting various tourist destinations including Dodge City, Kansas, the Pecos River, Covey’s Little America; Fort Smith, Arkansas; Las Vegas. Includes footage of Jack the mountain man, with donkeys.
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Various pictorial photographs by Maynard Parker, taken as a young man. He entered these images in various photographic contests.
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Images of women and girls posed at the front door and walkway of Maynard Parker's residence. The girl in the red dress with the puppies is Parker's daughter, Ann. Image (001) features Parker's daughter Elizabeth and an unidentified boy.
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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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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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