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Non-residential Projects by Client

Description: 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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Date: undated; 1937-1970,
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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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Non-residential Projects

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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 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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Residential Projects by Project Title

Visual Materials

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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Residential Projects

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The Residential Projects series consist of 14,289 black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 8 presentation albums, 1938-1972 and undated, created by Maynard L. Parker, to document residential projects. Among the clients for whom Parker worked are Barker Bros., Better Homes and Gardens, C. W. Stockwell Co., Cannell & Chaffin, Good Housekeeping, House & Garden, O. M. Scott & Sons, Sunset, and W. & J. Sloane. Residential projects with no identifiable client documented, among others, the houses of many entertainers, movie directors, businessmen, writers and journalists, as well as model homes and housing developments such as 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. See the Client Index for a complete list of all Parker's clients represented in the archive.

Series III.

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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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