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Title
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Creator
Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor
Dailey, Gardner A., 1895-1967, Architect
Warren & Wetmore, Architect
Elkins, Frances, 1888-1953, Interior Designer
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1947]
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information
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Description
Exterior views of the original hotel building and the 1947 addition. Interior views of the original hotel building and the new addition, with emphasis on lobby lounges, dining room, and guest rooms. Also includes views from guest rooms of the beach and ocean, and mountains.
This project seems to have been intended to document Gardner Dailey's renovation of an addition to the Royal Hawaiian, originally designed by New York architects Warren & Wetmore in 1927. See also project 1379.
"Royal Hawaiian Hotel," Architectural Forum, October 1947, cover, 81–87. (Gardner Dailey's remodel) Marion Gough, "Two Sides of Winter," House Beautiful 89, December 1947, 162.
Type
image
Extent
Number of items: 181 ; Black-and-white negatives (83) ; Color transparencies (89) ; Black-and-white prints (8) ; Presentation albums (1 - Please refer to photocopied facsimile)
Identifier
photCL MLP 0233
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/5657
Language
English
Subject
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Display of merchandise--Photographs
Hotels--Photographs
Flowers--Photographs
Gardens--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Lobbies (Rooms)--Photographs
Resort architecture--Photographs
Lounges--Photographs
Eating & drinking facilities--Photographs
Place
Honolulu, Hawaii
Source
Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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