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House Beautiful: Pace Setter Houses
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The House Beautiful Pace Setters Houses subseries consist of 1,494 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints, circa 1948-1961, created by Maynard L. Parker and documenting 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. Included are the 1948 Pace Setter House designed by Cliff May, the 1949 house designed by Emil Schmidlin, the three Pace Setter Houses of 1950 built by the David D. Bohannon Organization, the 1951 Pace Setter designed by Julius Gregory, the 1953 house designed by Henry Eggers, the 1955 house designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris, the 1956 house which was a remodel designed by Morgan Stedman, the 1958 house designed by Vladimir Ossipoff, and the 1961 house designed by Roger Rasbach.
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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: 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: 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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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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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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