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Title: May, Cliff, residence [Cliff May #3]
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: May, Cliff, Architect
Frankl, Paul T. (Paul Theodore), b. 1886, Interior Designer
Vermeulen, Aurele, 1885-1983, Landscape Architect
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1943]
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Exterior and interior views of the house known as Cliff May #3. Includes aerial views of the property; many views of horses and stables; and a portrait of Cliff May scooping ice cream.
Negatives previously rehoused; originally labeled 3/1945 and 11/1944, but publication dates show it was most likely shot in 1943. Built in 1939, remodeled 1948-49. NOTE: Items 028, 050, 052, 084, 086 were moved to p. 1491 (same house after 1948 remodel).
Brown, Helen Weigel, "Meet a Family that Really Knows How to Live," House Beautiful 88, April 1946, 74–87, 90–95, 99. "Ranch House Classic," in Western Ranch Houses by Cliff May (Menlo Park, Ca: Lane Pub. Co., 1958), (Santa Monica, Ca: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1997), 24–39. Architectural Digest 11, no. 2, 4–9. (1944) Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, May 13, 1945, cover. (image 006) (See tear sheet in Box 206.) On page 108 of "House Beautiful has Shown You These Four Houses Before," House Beautiful 89, September 1947, 106–109. "What's the Future of the Ranch House?," Sunset 92, no. 6, June 1944, 10–13. Cliff May, "The 'Perfect House' that Wasn't Good Enough," House Beautiful 93, June 1951, 82–93. A variant of image (105a) was the cover of House Beautiful, June 1944.
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 116 ; Black-and-white negatives (98) ; Color transparencies (12) ; Black-and-white prints (6)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0783
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/8176
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Outdoor living spaces--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Storage in the home--Photographs
Children's rooms--Photographs
Household electronics--Photographs
Garden structures--Photographs
Dens--Photographs
Outdoor furniture--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Place: Los Angeles, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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