Ernest Mitchell Pratt Photographs of Architecture Work of Mark Daniels, ca. 1915-1929

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Summary

Creators:
Pratt, Ernest Mitchell
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.
Extent:
2 oversize_boxes
Language:
Materials are in English.
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.

Background

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Price, 1976.
Processing information:

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Physical / technical requirements:

CONTAINS DIGITAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed digital materials. For information about the access status of the material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Physical location:
Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Terms of access:

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.

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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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