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House Beautiful: Residential Projects
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House Beautiful: Architects and Designers
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The House Beautiful Architects and Designers subseries consist of 7,565 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, 1942-1966 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker and Charles Yerkes. The images primarily depict residential architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, as well as craft projects used to illustrate instructional articles in House Beautiful.
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House Beautiful: Non-residential Projects
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The House Beautiful Non-residential Projects subseries consist of 1,505 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, circa 1942-1964 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker for the magazine. Images document non-residential projects including home and garden exhibitions, hotels, offices, and furniture in showrooms. A significant portion of this series is made up of photographs taken at the Arts of Daily Living Exhibition held at the 1954 Los Angeles County Fair. John deKoven Hill, architectural editor for House Beautiful at the time, designed most of the room exhibits in the show. Other designers represented are the architect Henry Eggers, Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Nakashima, Hans Wegner, Alfred Browning Parker, Sam Maloof, and Eleanor Forbes as well as interior designers Robert Ansteth, William P. McFadden, and the firm of Taylor-Mihailoff. Featured in the room exhibits is work by artists Emile Norman, Alice Petterson, Millard Sheets, and others. Other exhibitions depicted are the 1952 Festival of California Living, Southern California Fall and Spring Flowers Shows, and the 1949, 1951, and 1954 San Mateo Floral Fiestas. Hotels documented include the Hotel Bel Air and the Hotel Hacienda Vista Hermosa in Puente de Ixtla, Mexico.
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House Beautiful: Projects by Location
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The House Beautiful Projects by Location subseries consists of 982 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, 1941-1960 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker and Charles Yerkes, documenting projects in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Kentucky, Hawaii, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, and Washington. This subseries also includes residential subjects photographed in Cuernavaca and Puente de Ixtla, Mexico. A large portion of this subseries is made up of projects photographed by Maynard L. Parker and Charles Yerkes in Hawaii. These include historical sites such as the Alexander and Baldwin Building, and Governor's Palace in Honolulu; contemporary buildings such as the Liljestrand residence and McInerny's Department store by architect Vladimir Ossipoff; and the Alexander and Gerbode residences by Charles W. Dickey.
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Residential Projects by Client
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The Residential Projects by Client subseries consist of 6,266 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 1 presentation album, 1939-1971 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting residential projects undertaken for a variety of clients, including Barker Bros., Better Homes and Gardens, C. W. Stockwell Co., Cannell & Chaffin, Good Housekeeping, Greene & Hinkle, House & Garden, Neale Advertising Agencies, O.M. Scott & Sons, Rossmoor Corporation, Shuttercraft, Sunset, and W. & J. Sloane. See the Client Index for a complete list of all Parker's clients represented in the archive. Projects document exteriors, interiors, gardens, and landscaping of individual residences and housing developments.
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Residential Projects by Project Title
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The Residential Projects by Project Title subseries consist of 8,023 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 7 presentation albums, 1938-1972 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting residential projects for which there is no identifiable client. Among the residences Parker photographed are those of entertainers Fanny Brice, Billie Burke, Eddie Cantor, Leo Carrillo, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Dvorak, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Corinne Griffith, Bob Hope, Al Jolson, Hedy Lamarr, Merle Oberon, Ronald Reagan, and Barbara Stanwyck; directors Michael Curtiz, Alfred Hitchcock, Douglas Sirk, and Billy Wilder; developer Fritz Burns; writers Edgar Rice Burroughs and Louella Parsons; House Beautiful editor Elizabeth Gordon; and businessmen Gordon Guiberson, Ernest A. Kaiser, and Hyatt Robert von Dehn. Parker also photographed model homes and housing developments, including La Veta Woods in Orange, CA; a Kaiser Community Homes development; Lakewood Plaza in Long Beach, CA; Marlow-Burns & Company developments; and Olivewood Housing Project in National City, CA.
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Non-residential Projects by Client
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The Non-residential Projects by Client subseries consists of 4,725 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints;, and 2 presentation albums, 1937-1970 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting non-residential projects such as schools, commercial buildings (retail and office spaces), hotels, military bases, furniture showrooms, wallpaper, and jewelry, and created for clients including Albert Van Luit & Company; Ambassador College; Barker Bros.; C. W. Stockwell Co.; Cannell & Chaffin; Carleton Products; Devereux Products Company; Paul Flato; J. W. Robinson's; O. M. Scott & Sons; Pacific Desk Company; the Public Works Administration; Richard Whiteman Advertising; Southern California Gas Company; United States Gypsum Company; and W. & J. Sloane. See Client Index for a complete list of Parker's clients represented in the archive.
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