Records from Max and Rita Lawrence, ca. 1950-1994.

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Records from Max and Rita Lawrence, ca. 1950-1994.

Collection consists of records of the firm Architectural Pottery/Group Artec, established by Rita and Max Lawrence in 1950. Includes correspondence, publicity materials, photographic slides and scrapbooks. Also contains invoices, design statements and drawings, blueprints, patent information, catalogs and brochures, and magazine and newspaper articles.

11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)3 oversize boxes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7411686

University of California, Los Angeles

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Lawrence, Max

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Lawrence, Rita

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Architectural Pottery (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Almost a lifetime resident of Los Angeles, Rita Milaw Lawrence was graduated from UCLA in 1940 (political science snd sociology). Earlier that year she was married to Max Lawrence, a New Yorker she met after he moved to Los Angeles following his graduation from City College of New York; in 1950 they began the firm Architectural Pottery to produce and market the pottery container designs of students of LaGardo Tackett, professor at California School of Art; began issuing catalogs in September 195...