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Title: Kaiser [Community] Homes
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Burns, Fritz B., 1899-1979, Builder
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1947]
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
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Description: Exterior and interior views of three model houses. In most instances, Parker photographed rooms from the same angle in each house. Emphasis on living rooms, kitchens, appliances and storage (closets). Each house was decorated in a different style.
Original envelope reads "Kaiser Homes." Fritz B. Burns and Henry J. Kaiser formed Kaiser Community Homes in 1945 (source: James Keane Collection of Fritz Burns Biographical Materials finding aid, Online Archive of California (OAC).) Architectural Forum says the three basic models were called "Palm Springs," "New Englander" and "Suburban" (images 001-003).
"Product Design Disguises the Standard Chassis to Meet Consumer Likes, Wrapping It a Thousand Different Ways with Variable Garage Locations, Roofs, Porches and Finishes, Inside and Out," Architectural Forum, March 1947, 110–13.
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 50 ; Black-and-white negatives (50 - Some negatives have paper attached with tape; conservation?)
Identifier: photCL MLP 2921
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/16577
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Children's rooms--Photographs
Kitchens--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Dens--Photographs
Bathrooms--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Storage in the home--Photographs
Place: California
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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