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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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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Photographs of the gardens and exterior of Percival's home (Items 173-269 and 721-749) depict all sides of the house, including close-ups of particular features; garden scenes, including views of numerous plants, many in pots, and of Chinese lanterns, parasols, a sundial atop a base with animal imagery and other artwork, pottery, and reflecting pool. Several of the photographs focus on particular plants, including Japanese maples, hyacinths, daisies, camellias, and mullein, identified by Percival in captions on versos, and a few photographs feature cats. One photograph shows Percival in the garden (Item 191), and one depicts Percival's windmill in the background (Item 194).
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Photographs of the interior of Percival's home (Items 270-347) depict various rooms and feature bookshelves loaded with books, artwork, furniture, potted plants and flowers in vases, tables covered with silver bowls and decanters, musical instruments, and candles.
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Includes photographs depicting Mission San Luis Rey; Pershing Square; the home of Margaret Fowler, who was one of Percival's best friends (Items 169-170); the Friday Morning Club House (Item 171); and Percival on horseback with a woman in Eaton's Canyon, July 4, 1894. Also includes photographs of a man and boy in San Gabriel, a house in which Percival stayed in San Francisco, a girl reading on a porch in Los Angeles, two portraits of a young Percival, dressed up for parties, one of which has a long caption on verso by Percival (Items 750-752, 754-755); and one photograph of Percival with her mother (Box 2, Item 753).
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Photographs of Chinatown in Los Angeles (Items 58-132) depict parades and festivities including the first Fiesta de Los Angeles (1894) and the Feast of the Dead in Los Angeles (1902); street scenes including views of people and of businesses, such as the the Los Angeles Hay Market (Items 83-84); a glimpse of the Water Department on Marchessault Street (Item 86); the Mon Chong and Company storefront on Apablasa Street, one with Percival's mother in front (Items 102-103); the Guan Sun Company and Chop Suey Café; views of a parade and of Marchessault Street dated 1929 (Items 123-128); and photographs depicting Chinese graves and a Chinese tomb in the Evergreen Cemetery (Items 129-133).
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