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[House for Mrs. Charles P. Lowes, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. First scheme, exterior] – Antique Print

[House for Mrs. Charles P. Lowes, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. First scheme, exterior], [1922] — historic drawing
[House for Mrs. Charles P. Lowes, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. First scheme, exterior], [1922]. Historic drawing from the Los Angeles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures [House for Mrs. Charles P. Lowes, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. First scheme, exterior] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Few drawings on this board are as specific as this one: a first-scheme exterior design for a house commissioned by Mrs. Charles P. Lowes in Eagle Rock, then a hillside community northeast of downtown Los Angeles and later absorbed into the city. Drawn in graphite and color ink on tracing paper, the sheet records an early stage of the design, when the architect's ideas were still being tested before final working drawings. The 1920s were a boom period for residential building across Southern California, and the Lowes house belongs to that wave of commissions. The drawing comes from the Donald D. Walker collection at the Library of Congress, and its title was devised by Library staff.

Created / published[1922]
Medium1 drawing : graphite and color ink on tracing paper.
GenreArchitectural drawings 1920-1930.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179666

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