Visual Materials
Copy prints
- Description
- This collection consists of glass and film negatives and copy prints chiefly of architectural scenes in Southern California taken by architectural photographer William M. Clarke (1872-1953). 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.
