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House Beautiful: Residential Projects
Visual Materials
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.
Subseries II.2.
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House Beautiful
Visual Materials
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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Non-residential Projects by Project Title
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The Non-residential Projects by Project Title subseries consist of 2,880 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 4 presentation albums, circa 1935-1969 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting non-residential projects for which there is no identifiable client. Projects include commercial buildings (retail and office spaces), hotels, restaurants, military bases, furniture showrooms, decorator shows, hospitals, and schools, and various miscellaneous subjects such as portraits, street scenes, landscapes, and unidentified non-residential subjects. Commercial, office, and retail spaces include the Linda Vista Shopping Center in San Diego; interiors of a May Company department store; NBC Radio City in San Francisco; and a Western Air Lines ticket office in Hollywood. Hotels include the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills; Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley; Garden Grove Sanitarium in Garden Grove, CA; the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood; the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco; the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas; and the Statler Hotel in Los Angeles (now the Wilshire Grand). Military bases and installations include Camp Pendleton, CA; Roosevelt Base in San Pedro, CA; the Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach, CA; and Wilmington Hall in Long Beach, CA. Schools include the all-girls school La Hacienda del Sol in Tucson.
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House Beautiful: Projects by Location
Visual Materials
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.
Subseries II.6.
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Non-residential Projects
Visual Materials
The non-residential projects consist of 7,605 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 6 presentation albums, circa 1935-1970 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, and documenting non-residential projects. Subjects include commercial buildings (retail and office spaces), hotels, restaurants, military bases, furniture showrooms, wallpaper, and jewelry. Clients and projects include Albert Van Luit & Company; Ambassador College; Barker Bros.; C. W. Stockwell Co.; Cannell & Chaffin; Paul Flato; O. M. Scott & Sons; Pacific Desk Company; the Public Works Administration; Richard Whiteman Advertising; Southern California Gas Company; and W. & J. Sloane. Projects include the Linda Vista Shopping Center in San Diego; interiors of a May Company department store; NBC Radio City in San Francisco; a Western Air Lines ticket office in Hollywood; the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills; Furnace Creek Inn in Death Valley; Garden Grove Sanitarium in Garden Grove, CA; the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas; Camp Pendleton, CA; Roosevelt Base in San Pedro, CA; the Naval Weapons Station in Seal Beach, CA; and Wilmington Hall in Long Beach, CA.
Series IV.
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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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