Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
Archives related to: Vidor, King, 1894-1982
| title | Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material | repository | The Huntington Library |
| description | Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material consists of 57,892 black-and-white negatives, color transparencies, black-and-white prints, and color prints; 39 presentation albums; and 17 boxes of office records, 1930-1974. Created primarily by Maynard Parker, the archive documents the residential and non-residential work of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, artists, builders, real estate developers, and clients associated with these fields, foremost among them the magazine House Beautiful. Also included in the collection are photographs taken by other individuals, such as architect Cliff May and Parker's assistant, Charles Yerkes. Background Maynard L. Parker (1901-1976), known to friends and family as "Mike," was born and raised in Vermont. Parker worked in the Boston, Massachusetts region at a variety of jobs, including office boy, machinist, and gardener, before turning to photography as a profession. Parker traveled to California three times in the 1920s, finally settling in Los Angeles in 1929. He and his wife, Annie, lived in the Echo Park neighborhood, where Parker built a house at 2230 Lemoyne Street designed by a draftsman in architect Richard Neutra's office. The New England saltbox-style house served as residence and studio, as well as the backdrop for many of Parker's published photographs. Parker's personal interests included home renovation, self-improvement, archery (he appeared as an extra in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood), and building furniture. He was also, according to his daughter, a "frugal New Englander," health conscious, a consummate storyteller, an avid hiker, and a gardener [See photocopies of Maynard and Annie Parker's journals, and interview transcript with Ann Carawan and Diane Parker, February 14, 2008, in collection files]. Collection Number: photCL MLP Preferred Citation photCL MLP, Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material. Search database by collector's name. |
| extent | 230 boxes, 159.38 linear feet |
| formats | Photographs Prints Negatives Photograph Album Ephemera |
| access | Access is granted to qualified researchers and by appointment. Publication Rights Copyright for the photography of Maynard L. Parker has been assigned to the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108. All requests for permission to publish photographs in any and all formats must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Photographs. |
| record source | http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=3970 |
| finding aid | In repository and online at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6k4034m6 |
| acquisition information | Gift of Ann Carawan, Elizabeth Buxton, and Diane Parker Carawan, 1995; Ann Carawan, 2000. |
| updated | 03/16/2023 10:30:02 |
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| title | King Vidor Collection, 1924-1941 (bulk 1941). | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | The King Vidor Collection consists of photographs, scripts, props, publicity materials, production reports, studio memos, and other production materials primarily from the 1941 film H. M. Pulham, Esquire. Also in the collection is a typescript of Vidor's 1936 film The Texas Rangers and an accompanying photo of Vidor, and four additional photographs of Vidor dating from around 1924. Photographs constitute the bulk of the materials and include costume, makeup, set, production, and film stills. The film's stars, Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden, and Bonita Granville, are depicted in many of the photos. Publicity photos of actors and actresses considered for casting but not selected are also present. Scenes and settings are documented with twenty production design sketches, and with architectural drawings and models for six of the movie's sets. Costume sketches include twenty-two original women's gowns by Robert Kalloch and thirty-three men's wardrobe sketches by Gile Steele. The tools of film making are represented by various props, a production board with shooting schedules, a scene slate, and a small brass periscope. Daily reports and production, footage, and wardrobe breakdowns track the financial and business aspects of the film. Comment cards from members of a preview audience accompany editing notes from the preview. The original musical score by Branislaw Kaper is documented with one folder of sheet music, memos, editing notes, and photographs of the orchestral recording Location Harry Ransom Center Archival Materials (Film) Call No. HRC-FI Vidor, King |
| extent | 20.16 linear feet |
| formats | Photographs Printed Materials Ephemera Typescript Notes |
| access | Open for research |
| record source | http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/vidor.html |
| finding aid | An unpublished finding aid with folder level control, is available in the repository and on the internet http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/vidor.html |
| acquisition information | Gifts, 1936, 1941 |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | King W. Vidor papers, 1936-1982. | repository | Archives of American Art |
| description | Correspondence, printed material, photographs, and film outtakes (transferred to videotape) regarding Vidor as art collector and his work on a film about Andrew Wyeth. Included are: correspondence, 1941-1982, and printed material, 1936-1947, regarding Vidor's purchases, sales and loans, and donations of paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, Diego Rivera, and Grant Wood, including letters from dealers, buyers, museums, appraisers, and publishers, mainly regarding Benton's "Negro and Alligator" and Wood's "Arbor Day." Material relating to Vidor's uncompleted film on Andrew Wyeth, entitled "Metaphor: King Vidor Meets With Andrew Wyeth" includes a letter from Wyeth, 1975, regarding Vidor's film, The Big Parade and "Metaphor," photographs, negatives, and motion picture film outtakes (70 min. transferred to VHS video format), mostly of Vidor's visit with Wyeth and his wife Betsy at Chadd's Ford, Pa., discussing the influence of The Big Parade on Wyeth's work, and including many clips of scenes from The Big Parade. Bio / His Notes: Filmmaker, art collector; Los Angeles, Calif. |
| extent | 0.2 linear ft. + 2 reels motion picture film |
| formats | Correspondence Printed Materials Photographs Film |
| access | Unmicrofilmed; use requires an appointment and is limited to Washington, D.C. storage facility. |
| record source | http://www.siris.si.edu/ |
| acquisition information | Donated 1985 by the King Vidor Trust. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | King Vidor Papers, 1825-1970. | repository | Brigham Young University Library |
| description | Correspondence, movie scripts, real estate contracts, and movie set designs. The correspondence deals with personal and motion picture production matters. The collection includes eight scripts are for movies made from the 1925 to 1956. Bio/History: American movie producer. Location HBLL Special Collections Manuscript Collection Call Number 1130 HBLL/ MSS 1732 |
| extent | 10 linear inches |
| formats | Correspondence Legal Papers Business Papers |
| access | contact repository for any restrictions. |
| record source | http://catalog.lib.byu.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/57i6Xwci8D/LEE/221130042/60/548/X |
| finding aid | Contact repository for further details |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | King Vidor Papers, 1920-1965. | repository | University of California, Los Angeles |
| description | Collection consists of materials related to Vidor's career as a motion picture director and producer. Contains annotated scripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera for 22 films including The big parade, Duel in the sun, Northwest passage, and Stella dallas. Bio/History: King Wallis Vidor was born Feb. 8, 1894 in Galveston, TX; made fifty-six feature films in forty years; married Florence Arto, 1915 (divorced 1925); married Eleanor Boardman, 1926 (later divorced); married Elizabeth Hill; his directorial debut was The turn in the road (1919); made Hallelujah! (1929), the first sound picture with an all black cast; best known for The big parade (1925), The crowd (1928), The champ (1931), Stella Dallas (1937), and Duel in the sun (1947); wrote an autobiography, A tree is a tree (1953); retired from films in the late 1950s; taught a graduate cinema class during the 1960s at UCLA; received Edinburgh Film Festival award for career achievements, 1964; after receiving five Academy Award nominations during the course of his career, he was granted a special award for his innovations in cinema, 1979; died of congestive heart failure, Paso Robles, CA, on Nov. 1, 1982. General Info: Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Dept. of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Preferred citation: Cite as: King Vidor Papers (Collection 934). Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Associated materials: Filming of Duel in the sun [oral history transcript] Ray Rennahan, interviewee. UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1969. Available at Dept. of Special Collections, UCLA. UCLA Library notes Held at SRLF; use MC4795500 for paging purposes. |
| extent | 7 linear ft.) |
| formats | Business Papers Correspondence Photographs Ephemera |
| access | COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for access. |
| record source | http://www.library.ucla.edu/ |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available at repository. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Swami Vidyatmananda Collection, 1923-1986. | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | The Swami Vidyatmananda Collection comprises correspondence to Vidyatmananda as well as correspondence he gathered through his association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California and the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in France. Three distinct groups are present: letters between Christopher Isherwood and Swami Vidyatmananda, 1950-1986; correspondence to Lady Sandwich (the former Amiya Corbin) from Aldous Huxley, John Van Druten, Christopher Isherwood, Walter De la Mare, E. M. Forster, and Gerald Heard, 1944-1977; and letters to the French diplomat Martha Vanek from Jan Masaryk, René Fülöp-Miller, and Igor Stravinsky, 1923-1930. One postcard is jointly authored by Isherwood and King Vidor. Photographs of Isherwood, his mother, and his brother, and of Stravinsky are also present. Biographical Note Author, monk in Ramakrishna order, born John Yale in 1913. Location Harry Ransom Center Archival Materials (Literary Manuscripts) Call No. HRC-MS Vidyatmananda, Swami |
| extent | (.42 linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence Postcards Photographs |
| access | Limited photocopies can be provided upon receipt of written authorization from the copyright holder. |
| record source | http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu |
| finding aid | An unpublished finding aid with folder-level control, is available in the repository and on the internet http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/vidyatamananda.html. |
| acquisition information | This collection was gathered and donated in two parts by Swami Vidyatmananda. Vidyatmananda personally collected the Isherwood correspondence over the years 1950-1986. There is a note given by Vidyatmananda at the start of the Lady Sandwich correspondence explaining how he came to be in possession of the remaining materials. Lady Sandwich was affiliated with the Hollywood Vedanta Center contemporaneously with Vidyatmananda, enabling him to assemble her correspondence. Martha Vanek had been a member of the Centre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, which Vidyatmananda came to be the manager of many years later. Acquisition: Gifts, 1998-1999 (G11087, G11499) |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Studio archive, 1904-1980 (bulk 1936-1955). | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | Contains records documenting every aspect of David O. Selznick's Hollywood studio operations including script development, production, publicity, finances, and distribution. The records follow film's pioneer days in New York through the heyday of the studio system in Hollywood, to the rise of television. Besides Selznick's independent productions such as A Star is Born (1937), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Rebecca (1940), the archive documents his association with three major studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and RKO. Arranged according to the departmental division of Selznick's studio, the archive traces the evolution of films from story purchase through script development, casting, design, production, exploitation, distribution, and reissue. Though most of the materials document Selznick's independent career, there are also records concerning his personal affairs, his father's career, as well as films Selznick developed but never produced. The archive touches on virtually every major Hollywood person, studio, and event of the early 20th century. The archive is highlighted by David O. Selznick's personal files, found in Series I, and arranged in 28 sub-subseries. These records document Selznick's personal involvement in every aspect of his business and chronicle his life. Found in this subseries are clippings, confidential and personal files, coproduction and loanout files, correspondence, calendars, financial and legal files, interoffice files, MGM, Paramount, and RKO files, Myron Selznick estate files, photographs, safe deposit files, story files, talent files, and writers files. Biographical Note American film producer. Location Harry Ransom Center Archival Materials (Film) Call No. HRC-FI Selznick, David O. |
| extent | 1940 linear feet |
| formats | Business Papers Financial Records Legal Papers Correspondence Estate Papers |
| access | Open for research |
| record source | http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in the repository. The archive can be searched at box and/or file level on The University of Texas at Austin's online library catalog. |
| acquisition information | Purchase and gifts, 1981- . |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Margaret Cousins Papers, 1921-1973. | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | Correspondence, typescripts of published and unpublished material, photographs, galley proofs, speeches, printed materials, and memorabilia document Cousins' life from her high school years through her career as writer and editor. Files for her books, short stories, and articles are quite extensive (15 boxes), with most of the short stories and articles represented by both a typescript and the printed version. Includes typescripts for Lyndon Johnson's memoir, The vantage point, and Lady Bird Johnson's A White House diary, as well as two articles by Margaret Truman, all of which Cousins edited. Materials from her years at Doubleday include memoranda from other editors, minutes from editorial meetings, and correspondence with authors and literary agents. Among the personal items are correspondence with friends and associates, as well as documentation of her homes, especially her house near Dobbs Ferry, NY. Biographical Note Writer of several books and over 200 short stories. Editor for Doubleday & Company, Good housekeeping, and Ladies' home journal. Also published under pseudonyms Avery Johns and William Masters. Member of the Author's Guild of the Author's League of America. Note Memorabilia, including four framed sketches by H.W. van Loon, have been removed to the Vertical File. Books have been separately cataloged. Location Harry Ransom Center Book Collection Call No. HRC-MS Cousins, Margaret |
| extent | 14.5 linear feet |
| formats | Correspondence Typescript Printed Materials Photographs Ephemera |
| access | Open for research |
| record source | http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in the repository. |
| acquisition information | Gift of Ms. Cousins, 1973. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Alice Henderson Rossin Papers, 1861-1987 (bulk 1920-1949). | repository | University of Texas, Austin |
| description | The collection comprises correspondence, literary manuscripts, notes and notebooks, clippings, galley proofs, photographs, and date books ranging in date from 1861-1987, reflecting various aspects of not only Henderson's life, but also those of her husband, artist and architect William Penhallow Henderson, and her daughter, Alice Oliver Henderson Evans Rossin Colquitt. Henderson's published and unpublished works are represented by transcripts, notes, galley proofs, and clippings, and her involvement with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1912-22) and the Poetry anthologies are reflected in correspondence with editor Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and attorney Roberts Walker. Other correspondents include: Witter Bynner, D.H. and Frieda Lawrence, Vachel Lindsay, Mary Austin, Edgar Lee Masters, Haniel Long, Carl Sandburg, and Ralph Fletcher Seymour, among others. There is extensive family correspondence, notably with Mabel Dodge Luhan, especially during periods of financial and marital difficulity in the 1930s. After Alice and William Henderson moved to Santa Fe, NM, in 1916, they became interested in Native American issues, especially those surrounding the local Navajos. Through their individual talents, the Hendersons founded or supported projects such as the Poet's Round-up, the Navajo House of Religion (now the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian), the Eugene Manlove Rhodes Memorial Association, the Writer's Edition, the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project guide to New Mexico, and the Pueblo-Spanish Building Company, all of which are represented in the collection. continued much of her parents' work. She revived the Poet's Round-up in 1968, exhibited her father's art works, and worked with both of her parents' biographers. Her personal correspondence, primarily from the 1930s, includes letters from King Vidor, Lady Bird Johnson, Oliver La Farge, R.F. Seymour, and Jouett and Dorothea Todd, as well as family members. Rossin served as a board member of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation from 1962-78. Family correspondence that she added to this collection includes letters between her second mother-in-law, Clara Rossin, and composer Ernest Bloch, music critic Lawrence Gilman, and violinist Joseph Szigeti, 1912-28. Biographical Note American poet, editor, and writer on Southwestern topics. Location Harry Ransom Center Archival Materials (Literary Manuscripts) Call No. HRC-MS Henderson, Alice Corbin |
| extent | 30 linear ft. |
| formats | Correspondence Manuscript Notes Notebooks Clippings |
| access | Open for research |
| record link | http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/henderson.hp.html |
| record source | http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu |
| finding aid | Unpublished finding aid available in the repository, including a family tree and an index to family members. |
| acquisition information | Gift and purchase, 1977-88. |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Reminiscences of King Wallis Vidor: oral history, 1958. | repository | Columbia University Libraries |
| description | Earliest experiences with motion pictures, experiments with makeshift equipment; Vitagraph; career as director at First National, Metro, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; description of making various films including "The Big Parade" and "Street Scene"; advent of sound; responsibility of the director; impressions of D.W. Griffith, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish. Note(s): Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin. Bio/History: Moving-picture director. Location (guide): Oral History, 801 Butler (Non-Circulating) Call Number: NXCP88-A47 |
| extent | 49 leaves. Tape: 1 reel. |
| formats | Transcript Sound Recording |
| access | Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information. |
| record source | http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/ |
| finding aid | Name index available. |
| acquisition information | Forms part of: Popular arts project, part I |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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| title | Filming of Duel in the sun oral history transcript: recollections of Ray Rennahan, Lee Garmes, and King Vidor. | repository | University of California, Los Angeles |
| description | Rennahan, Garmes, and Vidor recall their work on Duel in the sun, working with David O. Selznick and others, and technical details of filming and lighting. In: Oral history of the motion picture in America Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles Note(s): Transcript of a four-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Dept. of Theater Arts; the UCLA Oral History Program provided technical advice. Bio/History: Cinematographers (Rennahan, Garmes), producer (Garmes), and directors (Garmes, Vidor). Location YRL Special Collections Stacks Call Number 304/ 17 |
| extent | v, 37, 29, 31 leaves, bound ; 28 cm. |
| formats | Transcript |
| access | Audiotape recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections. |
| record source | http://www.library.ucla.edu/ |
| updated | 11/12/2014 11:30:06 |
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