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Title: Roosevelt Naval Base
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Williams, Paul R., 1894-1980, Architect
Jones, A. Quincy (Archie Quincy), 1913-1979, Architect
Allied Engineers, Inc, 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 naval base facilities, including the main administration building, post office, fleet landing building, gymnasium, pool, bowling alley, lounges, eating facilities and arcades.
The firm Allied Engineers, Inc. was responsible for this project; according to the literature on A. Quincy Jones, he was responsible for the general layout of this base while employed by Allied Engineers. According to Karen Hudson, Paul R. Williams was responsible for many of the buildings on the base. Negatives previously rehoused. Prints accompanied by MLP invoice dated October 2, 1944 (housed in box 202 folder 13). Original envelope dated June 1944, however publication reveals it was taken earlier.
Pictorial California 18, no. 2, Summer 1943, cover, 18–21. Architectural Record, May 1944, 58–70. Karen Hudson, Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style (Rizzoli, 1993), 148–153.
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 45 ; Black-and-white negatives (42) ; Black-and-white prints (3)
Identifier: photCL MLP 4003
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/18827
Language: English
Subject: Architecture--Details--Photographs
Eating & drinking facilities--Photographs
Libraries--Photographs
Lounges--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Military bases--Photographs
Kitchens--Photographs
Swimming pools--Photographs
Place: San Pedro, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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