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Pratt (Ernest M.) Photographs of Architecture Work of Mark Daniels
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UCLA Library Special Collections
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.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed digital materials. For information about
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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained
by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue
the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Price, 1976.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9927229643606533
[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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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.
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.
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online:
Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Mark Daniels' Architecture (13 items) .
- 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).
Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs (Collection 1217). Available at Library Special Collections, UCLA.
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
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