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Finding Aid for the Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Mark Daniels' Architecture, ca. 1915-1929
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Title: Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Mark Daniels' Architecture,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1915-1929
Collection number: 2109
Creator:
Pratt, Ernest Mitchell, 1876-1945
Extent:
2 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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 at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Price, 1976.
[Identification of item], Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Mark Daniels' Architecture (Collection 2109). Department of
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Pratt, Ernest Mitchell, 1876-1945--Archives.
Baker, Viroque--Archives.
Daniels, Mark Roy, b. 1881.
Photographers--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Architects--California, Southern.
Architectural photography--California, Southern.
Photographs.
- 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 Department of Special Collections, UCLA.