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[Candid photographs of House Beautiful staff]

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Description: Candid and casual images of House Beautiful staff and possibly home owners doing recreational activities or setting up for photo shoots. Includes candid images taken at the Graf residence (see project 1359), the Ruskin residence (see project 1390), and Taliesin West. Also includes an exterior shot of Price Tower.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
Call number: photCL MLP 4095
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[House Beautiful staff, locations and set-up]
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Miscellaneous snapshots of House Beautiful staff members posing or at work on shoots. House Beautiful staff member Frances Heard appears most often. Also includes an image of Robert and Virginia Stanton, Frances Heard, Cliff and Jean May, and others at the Stanton residence in Carmel–by–the–Sea. Includes one shot of pool at Dewey Donnell residence.
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[Candid photographs of House Beautiful staff]
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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[House Beautiful staff at Paul Trousdale residence]
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Elizabeth Gordon and others informally gathered in the backyard of the Trousdale residence. Other people are likely House Beautiful staff members. Some images include a maid in uniform.
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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[Candid photographs at Tom Slick residence]
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Informal photographs taken in the backyard and swimming pool at the Tom Slick residence. Maynard Parker, Annie Parker, Tom Slick, and architect O'Neil Ford are pictured. Also includes three unidentified young men.
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