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Gladding McBean & Company
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Gladding McBean storage [?] of #918 Date St
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View of a storage yard with pipes and tiles of the Gladding McBean ceramics company on Date Street near Old Chinatown in Los Angeles.
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Howard Dohm material on Fort Moore
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The Howard Dohm material on Fort Moore consists of correspondence, a diary, photographs, and postcards primarily related to Dohm's time at Gladding, McBean and Company from 1954 through 1958. Included are 30 letters and 2 postcards from Henry Kreis, an American sculptor. Kreis mostly writes about his work concerning various jobs, such as the sandstone eagle carved for the war memorial in front of Essex Town Hall and a figure titled "Honor" at the entrance of the North Africa Military Cemetery at Carthage. Also included are 51 photographs related to the construction of the following sculptures cast and fired at Gladding, McBean and Company: Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial, "Justice" at the Los Angeles County Courthouse, and "Foundations of Law" at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, California. Other photographs include Gladding, McBean and Company's building, Dohm's terracotta project named "Anna," and 2 unidentified sculptures. Dohm's diary discussed his work on the Fort Moore Memorial from 1955 through 1956. There are also two photographs of a child named Eric Dohm laid-in the diary.
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Gladding McBean Tile Co
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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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