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House Beautiful: Projects by Location
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House Beautiful: Residential Projects
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The House Beautiful Residential Projects subseries consist of 3,793 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, 1941-1966 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker for the magazine. These photographs document residential architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design. Also depicted are holiday and party decorations, decorative accessories, and housewares in residential settings.
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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: 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: Editorial and Staff Assignments
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The House Beautiful Editorial and Staff Assignments subseries consist of 2,428 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, 1947-1959 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker for the magazine. This subseries contains individual projects that were created or compiled for House Beautiful editors and staff members: garden writer Alice Dustan; home furnishings editor Frances Taylor Heard; garden editor Joseph Howland; horticulture writer Jean Lawson; family editor Marva Shearer; and contributor Ellen Sheridan. The largest section consists of projects for Joseph E. Howland. These are almost exclusively images of residential landscaping including many examples of the work of landscape architect Thomas Dolliver Church.
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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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House Beautiful
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The House Beautiful series is composed of 16,261 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, and black-and-white prints photographed by Maynard L. Parker and his assistant Charles Yerkes for House Beautiful, 1941-1966 and undated. This series provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture, landscape architecture, and design covered by, and promoted in, the magazine for over two decades. Projects in the Architects and Designers subseries primarily document residential architecture, landscape architecture and interior design. The Residential Projects subseries consists of residential architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture as well as examples of party and holiday decorations, decorative accessories and housewares in residential settings. The Pace Setter Houses subseries documents homes chosen to be a part of House Beautiful's Pace Setter House Program. House Beautiful editor Elizabeth Gordon began the Pace Setter House program in 1946 to oppose the International Style of design embodied by architects such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Pace Setter houses were intended to highlight a modern American architecture that emphasized craft and regionalism. The program continued until 1965, featuring 17 houses by architects including Cliff May, Henry Eggers, Walter Wilkman, Alfred Browning Parker, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Roger Rasbach. The Non-Residential Projects subseries documents non-residential projects including home and garden exhibitions, hotels, offices, and furniture in showrooms. A large portion of this subseries is made up of images of the Arts of Daily Living Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1954. Most of the room exhibits were designed by architect John De Koven Hill, architectural editor for House Beautiful at the time; one room was designed by architect Henry Eggers. Exhibits also include the furniture design work of Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, George Nakashima, and Hans Wegner. The Editorial and Staff Assignments subseries documents projects created for editors and staff members of House Beautiful. These were garden writer Alice Dustan, home furnishings editor Frances Taylor Heard, garden editor Joseph Howland, horticulture writer Jean Lawson, family editor Marva Shearer, and contributor Ellen Sheridan. The Projects by Location subseries includes photographs taken by both Parker and Charles Yerkes, depicting mostly residential 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 number of photographs in this subseries document projects in Hawaii by architects such as Vladimir Ossipoff and Charles W. Dickey.
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