Re.: Issues of "Shapes of Clay" magazine, Gladding, McBean & Co. available online Hello everyone: Since I've had trouble identifying carved stone, terra cotta, and formed cement building details, I decided to use the online issues of "Shapes of Clay" magazine to learn more about terra cotta. (These magazines were published quarterly by Gladding, McBean & Co. General Office: 660 Market Street, San Francisco, Edward F. O'Day, editor. ) I have compiled a list of the issues of "Shapes of Clay" magazine that are available online and listed them below my signature lines. Since Gladding, McBean & Co. was and is a California company and a lot of their terra cotta was used on our California buildings, I thought you might find these issues of interest. These magazines have a lot of history and many, many beautiful photographs of buildings and other objects on which terra cotta was used between in the online issues that start in 1925 with the latest issue published in 1930. The Gladding McBean terra cotta plant is still in operation at Lincoln, Placer County, California today. You can read about the history of the company online at this link: <http://www.gladdingmcbean.com/aboutus.html>http://www.gladdingmcbean.com/aboutus.html According to the description on Google Books, the Gladding, McBean & Company "Job Order Documents" are available at the California State Library: http://books.google.com/books?id=KWylkgAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Gladding,+McBean+and+Company%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4kjDUbSSL8SeiQLO2YGIAg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBw "Starting ca. 1897, the plant began keeping job order information in file folders which have now been transferred into archival boxes arranged by job order number. Usually there is an initial job order form with the following information: Building name, location, address, owner, architect, contractor, order specifications and shipping/financing information. Subsequent correspondence between the Lincoln Office and local branch offices tracks the completion of the order. Most of this correspondence is internal within the company but there is some correspondence directly with client companies for some job orders. In addition, some order folders include photographs of the product. Although reference is often made to architectural drawings, none are included in the folders nor are any included with other materials at the California State Library." Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net Stone Quarries and Beyond http://quarriesandbeyond.org/ New additions to our web site will be listed on our Facebook page, which is open to the public. (You do not need to join Facebook to view the new additions. You only need to join Facebook if you want to receive automatic notifications of new additions.) http://www.facebook.com/StoneQuarriesAndBeyond LIST OF "SHAPES OF CLAY" MAGAZINE AVAILABLE ONLINE: "Shapes of Clay," "Grey Against the Blue of the Sky," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1925. (Photographs: the Standard Oil Building, San Francisco; & "Large Pottery Vase with Relief Decoration, Persia, 13th to 14th Century") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofapri1925unse "Shapes of Clay," "It is a Noble Thing to Do this with Moulded Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1925 (California) (Photographs: the Bank of Italy Building, Los Angeles; & "Terra-Cotta Fountain in Lily Pond in a Los Angeles Home") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofjune1925unse "Shapes of Clay," "Santa Barbara, June 29, 1925" (California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 3, August 1925. (Photographs: the clock in the tower of the Fithian Building, Santa Barbara; the Santa Barbara Postoffice; the Pacific Southwest Bank; Diehl Grocery Co. building; the Santa Barbara City Hall; the Granada Theatre building; St. Anthony's College "new building"; the Roosevelt School; the Porter Garden Telescope (statuary bronze) in Santa Barbara) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesof1925unse "Shapes of Clay," "Behind High Convent Walls," (Convent of Mount Carmel, Santa Clara, California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 4, October 1925. (Photographs: Carmelite Convent, Santa Clara; Spanish Renaissance and California Mission styles - exterior and interior of chapel; the chapel belfry; garden nook and colonnades that surround the cloister garden) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesocto1925unse "Shapes of Clay," "Out of Falling Waters" (in California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 5, November 1925. (Photographs: the Pacific Gas and Electric Building, San Francisco) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesnove1925unse "Shapes of Clay," "O Monarch of Our Skies!," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 1, No. 6, December 1925 (Photographs of the Telephone Building, San Francisco, California) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesvol11925unse "Shapes of Clay," "Ocean Romance in Terra-Cotta," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1926 (in California) (Photographs: the Matson Building, San Francisco; & the entranceway to the Children’s Hospital, San Francisco) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofapri1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "Floors of Clay" (in California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1926. (Photographs: the Lounge of the Hotel Del Monte; sales room, Don Lee, San Francisco; Los Altos Apartments, Los Angeles; the Temple Emanuel cloister floor, San Francisco; stairway, Lee Eleanor Graham; San Francisco; vestibule and room, H. H. Braley Residence, Los Angeles; entrance-way, S. G. Hindes Residence, San Francisco; patio, Leo Youngworth residence, Baldwin Hills; dining room, Women's City Club of San Francisco; sun porch, Hotel Del Monte, California; display room floor, P. E. O'Hair & Co., San Francisco; dining-room, Charles H. Shattuck Residence, Pasadena; hallway, Leo Youngworth Residence, Baldwin Hills; garden paths, H. W. Robinson Residence; Beverly Hills; entrance-way, Los Altos Apartments; Los Angeles; & decorative Persian wall fountain panel in a Palm Springs, California, residence) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofjune1926unse "Shapes of Clay, "Architecture in Fresno" (California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1926. (Photographs: the Pacific Southwest Building, Fresno; the San Joaquin Power Building, Fresno; the Brix Building, Fresno; the United Bank and Trust Company building, Fresno; the Radin & Kamp Building, Fresno; the Liberty Theater, Fresno; the Barker-Mitchell Company building, Fresno; the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building, Fresno; "The walls of the vestibule of the beautiful Eisner residence in Los Angeles") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofjuly1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "On the Monterey Peninsula" (California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 7, August 1926. (Photographs: Hotel Del Monte, California; Monterey Peninsula Country Club clubhouse roof tile; the George Cook Residence roof tile, Pebble Beach, California; the Monterey Peninsula Country Club mission roof tiles; guest cottages at the Charles W. Clark Residence, Pebble Beach, California; & Decorative tile wall fountain at the Hotel Del Monte) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofaug1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "Architectural Progress in Small Buildings" (in California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 8, September 1926. (Photographs: the Bullock & Jones Building, San Francisco; the Fred T. Wood Building, Oakland; the Melrose Avenue Stores, Los Angeles; the Samuel Kraemer Building, Anaheim; the Morton Jewelry Company building, Oakland; the Anna J. King Store, Compton; the Bank of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach; the Stradhoff Stores, Anaheim; the City Hall in Anaheim; the Babb Building, Long Beach; the S. W. Straus & Co. building, San Francisco; dining room in the home of Mr. Leo Youngworth at Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofsept1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "From Our Auburn Kilns" (in Auburn, Washington), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 10, November 1926. (Photographs: the Dexter Horton Building, Seattle, Washington; the Frederick & Nelson Department Store, Seattle; the Seattle Title & Trust Building, Seattle; Mr. Baker Park Presbyterian Church; the University of Washington Mines Building; Roosevelt High School, Seattle; Spring Apartments; Seattle; the West Seattle State Bank, West Seattle; the Herald Building, Bellingham, Washington; the Stimson Building, Seattle; & "Detail, Crystal Pool Natatrium, Seattle") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesof1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "A Study in Terra-Cotta Contrasts." (in California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 2, No. 11, December 1926. (Photographs: the Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles; the Edwards & Wildey Building, Los Angeles, & portion of the main foyer of the Belasco Theater, Los Angeles) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesdece1926unse "Shapes of Clay," "Why Terra-Cotta?," by Alec Curlett, of Curlett & Beelman, Architects, Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1927. (Photographs of the Pacific Finance Building, Los Angeles) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesvol31927unse "Shapes of Clay," "Decorative Tile: A Renaissance." (in California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 2, February 1927. (Photographs: the arched window and entrance to dining room in the Hotel Del Monte, California; the Belasco Theater stairway, Los Angeles; the Santa Fe Ticket Agency interior, Los Angeles; the Pig'n Whistle, Los Angeles - exterior window & interior; the Calpet Filling Station, San Francisco; the Calpet Filling Station, Los Angeles; a Lunette at the St. Mary's Chapel, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesfebr1927unse "Shapes of Clay," "The College of the Pacific." (Stockton, California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1927. (Photographs: "mural painting in ceramics," an over-mantel for the children's reading-room of the Public Library in Wilmington, California) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesmarc1927unse "Shapes of Clay," "Knots of Paradise" (Hawaii), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 5, June 1927. (Photographs: the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Honolulu; the Y.W.C.A., Honolulu; the Federal Building & Post Office, Honolulu; McKinley High School, Honolulu; the Academy of Arts, Honolulu; the S. M. Damon Building, Honolulu; the Teo. H. Davies & Co. Building, Honolulu; & the home of Mrs. C. W. Cooke, Honolulu) http://quarriesandbeyond.org/pdf/shapes_of_clay_gladding_mc_bean_co_june_1927.pdf "Shapes of Clay," "San Francisco Public Schools" (California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 6, July 1927. (Photographs: Mission High School, San Francisco; High School of Commerce, San Francisco; Horace Mann School, San Francisco; Alvarado School, San Francisco; Raphael Weill School, San Francisco; & the Dudley Stone School, San Francisco) http://quarriesandbeyond.org/pdf/shapes_of_clay_gladding_mc_bean_co_july_1927.pdf "Shapes of Clay," "Two California Landmarks," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 7, August 1927. (Photographs: the Hunter-Dublin Building, San Francisco & the Subway Terminal Building, Los Angeles) http://quarriesandbeyond.org/pdf/shapes_of_clay_gladding_mc_bean_co_aug_1927.pdf "Shapes of Clay," "The Russ Building, San Francisco," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 10, November 1927, 10 pp. (Photographs: the Russ Building, San Francisco & "Fretted sunlight paints garden pictures on this Oil Jar glazed in Chinese Blue….") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofnove1927unse "Shapes of Clay," "Spreckels Building, San Diego" (the John D. Spreckels building in San Diego, California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 3, No. 2, December 1927. (Photographs of the Spreckels building & "Thirteenth-Century Persian vase of blue green glaze.") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofvol31927unse "Shapes of Clay," "The Terra-Cotta of Bologna" (Italy), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1928. (Photographs: Palazzo Fava, Bologna; Casa Caracci, Bologna; Palazzo Malaguti, Bologna; Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna; Church of San Giacomo, Bologna; Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna; Palazzo Pallavincini, Bologna; the Civic Museum, Bologna) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofvol1928unse "Shapes of Clay," "On Nob Hill" (San Francisco, California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 4, No. 2 , February 1928. (Photographs: Mark Hopkins Hotel, detail of terra-cotta ornament alongside main entrance of Mark Hopkins Hotel; the Mark Hopkins Hotel; the Huntington Apartments; the Brocklebank Apartment; the Cathedral Apartments entrance; & "Jar glazed delicately in light green") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesvol41928unse "Shapes of Clay," "Los Angeles City Hall" (California), Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 4, No. 3, June 1928. (Photographs: Los Angeles City Hall; & "Decorative tile ceiling of main entrance lobby, Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles....") (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofjune1928unse "Shapes of Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 5, No. 1, August 1928. (Photographs: Temple Beth Israel, Portland, Oregon; St. Dominic's Church, San Francisco, California; the Ramboz Residence, Pasadena, California; the Mitsubishi Bank, Tokyo, Japan; the Pasadena City Hall, Pasadena, California; the Title Insurance Building, Los Angeles, California; the Dyas Carleton Cafe, Los Angeles, California; the Scripps College, Claremont, California; J. F. Burkhard Residence, San Marino, California; P. D. Middlekauff Residence, Palo Alto, California; the Percy L. Pettigrew Residence, Palo Alto, California; & Garden Pottery, Glendale, California) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofclayvol1928unse "Shapes of Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 5, No. 2, November 1928. (Photographs: the Albert Isham Swimming Pool, Sandyland Beach, California; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mesa, Arizona; the Bank of Italy, San Jose, California; the Diocesan Junior Seminary, Los Angeles, California; the Alta Plaza Apartments, San Francisco, California; the Merchants National Trust and Savings Bank, Los Angeles, California; the William Cavalier & Co. Building, Oakland, California; the California Bank, Los Angeles, California; & the Southwestern University, Los Angeles, California. (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://quarriesandbeyond.org/pdf/shapes_of_clay_gladding_mc_bean_co_nov_1928.pdf "Shapes of Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 5, No. 3, February 1929. (Photographs: the Biltmore Hotel Annex, Los Angeles; Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, detail of main structure and tower; Students’' Union, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; the Chester Williams Building, Los Angeles; Santa Barbara Telephone Company Building; the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank Building, San Diego; the Roosevelt Building, main facades; the Yusen Office Building, Tokyo, Japan; the William Andrew Clark, Jr., Library, Los Angeles; the Republican Press Building, Ukiah, California; the Milton Getz Residence, Beverly Hills, California; residence in Leimert Park, Los Angeles; & the J. E. Henry Residence, Stockton, California) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesoffeb1929unse "Shapes of Clay," "Domestic Architecture in the Valley of the Loire," (France), Gladding, by William M. Clarke, A.I.A., McBean & Co., Vol. 5, No. 4, May 1929. (Photographs: St. Aubin, France, roof to lean-to; Peyre-Orume, France, hip and ridge tile plastered with cement; St. Aubin, France, tiles used at entrance gateway; Near Bourbon-Lancey, France, varied roof pitches on building; Garnat, France, "Characteristic treatment of roof to dormer-like entrance"; St. Aubin, France, "Flat shingle tile roof with cemented hips"; Digion, France. "Roof of main building has...form pitch at two levels."; Between Charolles and Digion, France. "Quaint mass in soft reds and grays...."; St. Aubin, France. "Hipped roof with rounded hip tiles...."; St. Aubin, France. "Flat shingle tile and slightly irregular butt line...." Near Dignon, France. "Weather-stained walls...."; Lesme, France; et al; & Summer Home, Paul H. Helms, Beverly Hills, California) (This issue of the magazine is available on the Internet Archive.) http://archive.org/details/shapesofclay1929unse "Shapes of Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 5, No. 5, August 1929. (Photographs: Library, University of California, Los Angeles, California; the Court House - Hall of Records - Jail Building, Santa Barbara, California; the First Baptist Church, Sacramento, California; the Union Steamship Company Building, Sydney, Australia; the O'Connor, Moffatt & Co. Building, San Francisco, California; the Janss Investment Company Branch Office, Los Angeles, California; the John S. Brown Residence, Walnut Grove, California) http://quarriesandbeyond.org/pdf/shapes_of_clay_gladding_mcbean_and_co_august_1929.pdf "Shapes of Clay," Gladding, McBean & Co., Vol. 6, September 1930. (Photographs of the University of California at Los Angeles) http://archive.org/details/shapesvol61930unse