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Beautiful homes, or, Hints in house furnishing
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Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,893 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes.
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Image of an aerial view of the Boston, Massachusetts, city block corner of Washington St. and Common St. with a complex of buildings offering furnishings sold by B.A. Atkinson & Company; variety of horse-drawn vehicles visible in streets surrounding the buildings; vignette of a comfortably furnished home interior at top left; full-length portrait of owner Byron A. Atkinson wearing a coat and holding a top hat at right.
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The House Beautiful treasury of contemporary American homes
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"The homes selected by the author, former executive editor of House Beautiful magazine, are both big and small, costly and inexpensive. They are homes designed for many climates and created for varying needs ... [E]ach of the homes chosen is an excellent example of what contemporary American architecture is ... Among the homes which make up this ... volume are nine designed by ... Frank Lloyd Wright"--Jacket
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