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Title: Motion Picture Country House
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Pereira, William L., 1909-1985, Architect
Smith, Gilbert, Interior Designer
Ruben, Harold, Landscape Architect
Joshua H. Marks-Charde Co, Builder
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1942]
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 retirement home's main building, cottages and outbuildings, and views of the grounds. The project contains a picture of the billboard announcing construction of the project, as well as pictures of the complex after completion.
Originally accompanied by note with address (housed in box 202 folder 12). Negatives previously rehoused, and dated 1943 April, however publication reveals they were taken earlier. See also architectural drawings, project 0961. A view of a dedication plaque is dated September 27, 1942.
"Motion Picture Country House, San Fernando Valley, Calif.," Architectural Forum, November 1942, 37–48.
Type: Image
Extent: Number of items: 52 ; Black-and-white negatives (52)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0960
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/8942
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Outdoor living spaces--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Lounges--Photographs
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Gardens--Photographs
Place: Woodland Hills, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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