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Western Hills, Lawndale, California : preliminary prospectus and illustrations.
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Title:
Western Hills, Lawndale, California: preliminary prospectus and illustrationsCreator/Contributor:
Maybeck, Bernard R., creator, architect.Creator/Contributor:
Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957, architect.Creator/Contributor:
Darbee, Annie H., publisher.Abstract:
3 folded, mounted prints: reproductions of architectural drawings by Bernard Maybeck and/or Julia Morgan depicting various
views and details of the proposed Western Hills cemetery.
Date:
1939 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWestern Hills (Cemetery : Projected) -- Pictorial works
Cemeteries -- California -- San Francisco Peninsula
Note:
Title printed on envelope. Printed on front cover of volume: Illustrations : Western Hills, Lawndale, California.
Western Hills, Lawndale, California : preliminary prospectus and illustrations, BANC PIC 2017.142, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Related collection: Bernard R. Maybeck architectural drawings, 1939-1940 (BANC MSS 79/87 c).
Related publication: Western Hills of Memorial City, Inc., Lawndale, California : Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan, architects,
1939-1940, p. 37-40 of Butterfield & Butterfield, Fine art nouveau, art deco, arts & crafts (pfNA737.M435 W48 1991).
Western Hills (originally named Memorial City) was a proposed cemetery project organized by Annie H. Darbee, on whose property
in Lawndale, San Mateo County, the cemetery was to be developed. Darbee hired both Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan to plan
and design the project. Their work went from 1939 to 1941.
Type:
graphicArchitectural drawings.
Prospectuses-California-San Mateo County.
Physical Description:
print
3 prints mounted in 1 volume, contained in 1 envelope : color lithographs ; sheets 29 x 53 cm, volume 31 x 29 cm, envelope
32 x 32 cm
Language:
English