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William M. Clarke Architectural Negative Collection

Description

The collection contains mostly architectural scenes in southern California taken by architectural photographer William M. Clarke between circa 1920 and 1950. The bulk of the collection focuses on residential and business projects in Los Angeles for Architectural Digest magazine from about 1920 through the 1930s.

Among the architecture represented in the collection are buildings and landscapes created by some of Los Angeles' most distinguished architects and designers, including Myron Hunt, Reginald Johnson, Gordon Kaufmann, Roland Coate, Wallace Neff, John & Donald Parkinson, George Washington Smith, and Paul Williams. The landscape designs of A. E. Hanson, Lucille Council & Florence Yoch, Katherine Bashford and Paul Thiene are well represented in the collection also. Some of the buildings represented are the Atheneaum at Caltech, USC Hall of Philosophy, La Quinta Resort, Hope Ranch, W. K. Kellogg Ranch, Scripps College, Royal Laundry, the Arthur Bourne house, the Harold Lloyd Estate and the Catalina Island Casino. Includes many homes in the Pasadena area, as well as Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and Montecito. Other points of interest are Bertram Goodhue's California Building for the 1915 Pan-California Exposition in Balboa Park, and several I. Magnin department stores in California. There are several unidentified residences and unidentified buildings scattered throughout the collection.

The original 4 x 5 inch glass plate and film negatives are housed in 129 boxes; corresponding copy prints have been made for all images and are available for research.

Type
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date
approximately 1920-1950
Call number
photCL 415
Creator
Clarke, William M(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of the Architects Library of Los Angeles, 1955-1956.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people
Bashford, Katherine, (1889-)
Brigham, George Bickford, (1875-1966,)
Byers, John, (1887-)
Coate, Roland E., (1872-1959,)
Cornell, Ralph D., (1894-)
Council, Lucille, (1869-1924,)
Davis, Pierpont, (1871-1962,)
Davis, Walter Swindell, (1893-)
Farquhar, Robert D., (1868-1952,)
Farrand, Beatrix, (1889-1974,)
Fertig, J. H., (1895-1982,)
Flewelling, Ralph Carlin, (1895-1945,)
Fuller, Leland F., (1861-1935,)
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, (1874-1937,)
Grey, Elmer, (1892-1956,)
Hansen, Albert E., (1876-1930,)
Hanson, A. E., (1880-1971,)
Hewitt, Harwood, (1894-1980,)
Howard, Paul J., (1888-1973,)
Hunt, Myron, (1872-1953,)
Huntsman-Trout, Edward,
Johnson, Reginald D.,
Kaufmann, Gordon B.,
Morin, Roy L.,
Neff, Wallace,
Oliver, Henry,
Palmer, Vincent,
Parkinson, Donald B.
Parkinson, John,
Pope, John Russell,
Price, Roy Seldon,
Purdy, Benjamin Morton,
Ray, Russell,
Ring, Josiah,
Sabin, Palmer,
Smith, George Washington,
Spielman, Harold,
Swasey, McNeal,
Thiene, Paul,
Williams, Paul R.,
Witmer, D. J.
Woollett, William,
Yoch, Florence,
Associated organizations
Allison & Allison,
Dodd & Richards,
Hunt and Chambers, Architects,
Hunt & Grey,
Hunt & Burns,
Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate,
Morgan, Walls & Clements,
Reay & Garstang,
Webber & Spaulding,
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