Finding Aid for the Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Architecture Work of Mark Daniels, ca. 1915-1929 LSC.2109
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Title: Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Architecture Work of Mark Daniels
Creator:
Pratt, Ernest Mitchell
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2109
Physical Description:
2 oversize_boxes
Date (inclusive): ca. 1915-1929
Abstract: Mark Daniels was a Southern California architect who designed homes and gardens in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles and vicinity.
Ernest Mitchell Pratt and Viroque Baker photographed Daniels' houses and landscape architecture to be published in magazines
such as Country life and Town and country review, mostly in the 1920s. The collection consists of 148 mounted photographs
of Mark Daniels' architecture and landscape architecture in Southern California, mostly in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Price, 1976.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Mark Daniels' Architecture (Collection 2109). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Mark Daniels was a Southern California architect who designed stately homes and gardens in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles
and vicinity; Ernest Mitchell Pratt and Viroque Baker shared a photographic studio in Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles,
and their photographs of Daniels' houses and landscape architecture were published in magazines such as
Country life and
Town and country review, mostly in the 1920s.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of 148 mounted photographs of Mark Daniels' architecture and landscape architecture in Southern California,
mostly in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles. The photographs, variously signed by E.M. Pratt and/or Viroque Baker, are of various
sizes, chiefly 46.5 × 35.5 cm. Twenty-three reduced format copies of photographs in the collection have been removed from
the collection and are stored in the vertical file.
Online Items Available
- 23 photographs (reduced format: 10.5 × 13 cm. or 13 × 10.5 cm.), printed on RC paper (Negatives available). These images are
copies of items in Boxes 1-2, negative numbers are marked on the verso of the images. Stored in Vertical Files (at the end
of Collection 99).
Related Material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs.
Architectural photography -- California, Southern.
Architects -- California, Southern.
Photographers -- California, Southern -- Archives.
Pratt, Ernest Mitchell -- Archives
Baker, Viroque--Archives.
Daniels, Mark
box 1
House for A.E. Bell - gate. 1.
box 1
A.E. Bell House. 2.
General Physical Description note: (Horizontal).
box 1
Entrance gates to Bel-Air. 18-20.
box 1
A bridge in Bel-Air. 21-22.
General Physical Description note: (no.22 horizontal).
box 1
Bel-Air Administration Building, interior and exterior views. 23-37.
General Physical Description note: (no.35, 36 unmounted, 29.2 × 19.6 cm. and 33 × 25.5 cm.; no.37 mounted, 27.9 × 25 cm.).
box 1
Bel-Air Administration Building, A.E. Bell's office (interior views). 38-39.
box 1
Bel-Air Bay Club. 40-49.
General Physical Description note: (no.48, 49 photos of drawings).
box 1
Bel-Air Country Club. 50.
box 1
G.W. Boggs Residence, Bel-Air. 51-53.
box 1
L.A. Brunsan Home. 54-55.
box 1
H.R. Callendar Estate - The Gates. 56.
box 1
Castellamare Business Building. 57-61.
General Physical Description note: (no.57, 58 duplicates).
box 1
A.M. Chaffey Residence. 62-66.
box 1
William Andrews Clark, Jr. - Summer House and Library Gardens, Los Angeles. 67-71.
box 2
Mark Daniels - Residence and Gardens, interior and exterior views. 72-82.
General Physical Description note: (no.81, 82 unmounted, 34.2 × 27.5 cm., and 27.5 × 35.2 cm.).
box 2
C. Van R. Johnson Residence - Miramar Estates, Los Angeles. 87-89.
General Physical Description note: (no.89 unmounted, 28.5 × 26.5 cm., horizontal).
box 2
Elissa Landi Home, Riviera, Los Angeles. 90-92.
General Physical Description note: (no.92 unmounted, 27.8 × 35.1 cm., horizontal).
box 2
John McCormack Estate. 94-96.
box 2
E.E. Mitchell Resdience, Miramar, Los Angeles. 97-98.
box 2
Mount Saint Mary's College Los Angeles, California, 99.
1929.
General Physical Description note: (Photo of drawing - artist's conception).
box 2
Garnet Rainey Residence. 100.
box 2
G.E. Ruckstell Residence. 101-105.
General Physical Description note: (no.104, 105 unmounted, 28.8 × 36.4 cm.).
box 2
C.E. Sears Residence and Gardens. 106-110.
box 2
Times Demonstration Home (Villa Aurora), Miramar, Los Angeles. 111-119.
General Physical Description note: (no.118, 119 35.5 × 42.2 cm. and 35.5 × 42.5 cm., horizontal).
box 2
Miscellaneous unidentified views, interior and exterior. 122-163.
General Physical Description note: (no.136 horizontal).
[Mark Daniels]
General note
The following are not photographs by Ernest Pratt or Viroque Baker, but are part of Mark Daniels's papers.
box 2
Charcoal drawings. 137-138.
General Physical Description note: (22.7 × 29.5 cm. and 22.9 × 30.1 cm.).
box 2
Hotel at Lake Jovita, Florida. 139-140.
General Physical Description note: (13.5 × 24.3 cm. and 15.6 × 23.9 cm.).
box 2
HOtel at Biskra, California. 141-142.
General Physical Description note: (15.6 × 14.3 cm. and 17.3 × 24.1 cm.).
box 2
Unidentified photograph by Arthur W. Smith: Patio remodeled into more
modern.
143.
box 2
Photostats of prints. Old master brought by Mr. Daniels from Europe. 144-148.
