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Personal photographs

Description: The personal photographs consist of 1063 snapshots, small format negatives and small format color transparencies taken by Maynard L. Parker and unidentified individuals, and depicting subjects as diverse as fishing trips and boats, family vacations, animals, national parks, family friends, snapshots taken while working for House Beautiful, and Parker's own family and home.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
Call number: Series V.
Creator: Parker, Maynard L (1900-1976)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Donated by Ann Carawan, Elizabeth Buxton, and Diane Parker Carawan, 1995.

Travel and personal photographs

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A collection of photographs taken by Stewart Edward White on his travels in Africa and the United States, and images documenting his army training during World War I. The travel images focus on outdoor recreation, particularly fishing, hunting, and boating. White appears in some images, as does his wife (sometimes called Bessie or Betty), and many are captioned in White's handwriting.

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Photograph album of early aviation at Dycer Airport, Los Angeles County, California

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An album of photographs depicting members of the Branesky family posing with airplanes and equipment, and several aerial views of Los Angeles cityscapes and oil fields taken while in flight. Many photographs were taken at Dycer Airport, which was located in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. Images include the boys with model airplanes, their flight instructors, airplane mechanics, a crashed plane, and the Braneskys' airplanes, with several captions. A few newspaper clippings discuss the Branesky brothers and their enthusiasm for flying. The final pages of the album include photographs of boats, a deep-sea fishing excursion with family members posed with fish, and scenery around Mt. Wilson.

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Lute Pease photograph collection

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A collection of photographs from the life of Lucius ("Lute") Pease, with views of the Canadian Yukon and Alaska; Pease as a child and in his later years; family members; friends and some sitters of his portrait work; and views of his paintings. The scenes in Yukon and Alaska date from approximately 1898-1901 and show Pease and others in heavy fur clothing, living in log cabins, travelling with dog sleds, prospecting, hunting, and posed outside the Del Norte Hotel in Nome. Native (or Inuit) men and women are seen in fishing boats, hunting sea lions and aboard the United States Revenue Cutter "Bear." The remainder of the collection focuses on Pease and family members, and Pease during his years painting and working as an editorial cartoonist, with a view of him at the drawing board. Other photographs of note: American political cartoonist Homer Davenport, ca. 1880s; Pease with Walt Disney, ca. 1940s; a copy photograph of Robert Todd Lincoln as a young man; and three snapshots from the South Seas, which may be Jack London photographs (London wrote for the Pacific Monthly).

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Employee album of R. H. Cates - personal and project photos

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Album of personal and project snapshots of R. H. Cates. Views in Logan, Utah, Kern River, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, and scenes of camping, hunting, riding, boating, fishing, pumping plant, mining operations or tunnel excavation, Big Bear Dam.

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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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Architects and Designers

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The Architects and Designers series consist of 18,746 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints; and 22 presentation albums, circa 1938-circa 1973 and undated, created primarily by Maynard Parker to document the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, builders, real estate developers, and artists. This series also includes photographs taken by architects with whom Parker worked, including Frank L. Anderson and Cliff May, and a few examples of work by other photographers, including André Kertész, Fred R. Dapprich, and Parker's assistant, Charles E. Yerkes.

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