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Residential Projects by Client

Description: 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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Date: undated; 1939-1971,
Call number: <emph render="underline"> <emph render="bold">Subseries III.1. </emph> </emph>
Creator: Parker, Maynard L (1900-1976)

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Donated by Ann Carawan, Elizabeth Buxton, and Diane Parker Carawan, 1995.

Donated by Ann Carawan, 2000.

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Copyright for the photography of Maynard L. Parker has been assigned to the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. All requests for permission to publish photographs in any and all formats must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Photographs.

Associated people

Anderson, Frank L.

Dapprich, Fred R.

Kertész, André.

May, Cliff.

Yerkes, Charles E.

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Mott Studios.

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