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Title: Thomas, John Charles, residence
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Williams, Paul R., 1894-1980, Architect
Grieve, Harold, Interior Designer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944 January
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 possibly two different residences.
Negatives previously rehoused. It is unknown if Williams is the architect of the Mandeville Canyon house. He is the architect of the Lake Arrowhead residence (see citations). John Charles Thomas was a well-known singer.
Lake Arrowhead living room appears in: Karen E. Hudson, Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style (New York: Rizzoli, c. 1993), 88. Mandeville Canyon home profiled in: "John Charles Thomas' Home on the Hill," American Home, April 1946, 48–49. Image of kitchen on p. 92 in: Reuben Whitney, "How Many of These Good Ideas Could You Have Dreamed Up?," House Beautiful, 92–94. "Where Five Famous People Do Their Reading," House Beautiful, November 1945, 102–103.
Type: Image
Extent: Number of items: 14 ; Black-and-white negatives (14)
Identifier: photCL MLP 1241
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/10134
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Sunspaces--Photographs
Private libraries--Photographs
Interior decoration--Photographs
Kitchens--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Place: Lake Arrowhead, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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