Photographs of buildings designed by Robert D. Farquhar. [ca. 1915-1926]

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Photographs of buildings designed by Robert D. Farquhar. [ca. 1915-1926]

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Collection of photographs apparently compiled by architect Robert D. Farquhar of buildings he designed. Buildings include the Festival Hall at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles, and the William Andrews Clark, Jr. mausoleum in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Photographs include the construction and finished buildings. Some ephemeral material is also included as are the original envelopes in which Farquhar dropped off his undeveloped film negatives to be developed.

4 boxes (1.67 linear feet)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 8141589

University of California, Los Angeles

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Panama-Pacific Exposition held in San Francisco, Cal. in 1915, where Illinois had a visitors' building. From the description of Register of visitors, Feb. 1915-Dec. 1915. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393876 History of the Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco hosted the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Officials from the Exposition printed postcards for the ...

Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)

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William Andrews Clark memorial library

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The library and its collections were built by William Andrews Clark, Jr., and named after his father, who had built a mining fortune in MT. The son, a prominent Los Angeles book collector and philanthropist, had a house at the corner of Adams and Cimarron Streets, and from 1924 to 1926 he constructed the present library on the same lot. Shortly afterwards he announced his intent to donate the collection, the buildings, and the square-block property to UCLA. When he died in 1934 the deed passed t...

Farquhar, Robert D., 1872-1967.

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Historical Note As a service to the students of the College of Medicine, University of Southern California, of which he was a faculty member, and to the practicing physicians of Los Angeles, Dr. Walter Jarvis Barlow funded the construction of a handsome domed building just across the street from the College to house a medical library open to all members of the medical profession. The building was dedicated in 1907 and deeded by Dr. Barlow to ...