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Architectural Drawings

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Contains drawings donated by the families of Charles and Henry Greene, by the families of the clients and by the families of later owners. About 137 architectural drawings can be viewed online along with a smaller number of design drawings. A group of post-1966 landscape drawings(unprocessed) for the Gamble House by landscape architect Emmet Wemple was added to the Gamble House drawings in 2011.

Large format items other than architectural drawings are housed in the last few folders of the subseries. These include photographs and certificates related to the AIA awards to the Greenes in 1948 and 1952; an oversize tinted photograph of the James Culbertson garden; and wallpaper and paint samples from the Lucy Wheeler house. See also an oversize tinted photograph of the Camp house and presentation drawings for Darling, Robinson, and Tichenor houses in Boxes 121 and 121a, Subseries D. below.

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Date

1904-1996

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Architectural drawings, plans, surveys

Manuscripts

This series contains architectural drawings, plans, surveys, and notes; autograph manuscripts are in Jefferson's hand unless noted otherwise. Architectural drawings and plans are for Jefferson's properties including Monticello and Elk Hill, the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, the Virginia capitol and the city of Richmond, and the Hôtel de Langeac in Paris. Surveys are of lands in Virginia, primarily in Albemarle County and the Monticello area. Also present are Jefferson's working drawings of a polygraph machine and other devices. In addition, this series has some related notes, estimates and calculations, including architectural memoranda on the President's House (White House) in Washington, D.C.

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Photographs

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Arranged by the name of the original client, this series contains photographs of buildings and furniture drawn from various sources, including the families of the Greenes and of the clients, from later owners, and other donors. These photographs date from the time of construction through the present. Included are photographs by well-known photographers, such as Harold A. Parker, Maynard Parker, Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman, and Ezra Stoller, as well as early photos by Gamble son, Sidney, and a professional photographer hired by the Greenes, Leroy Hulbert (a tinted photograph by Hulbert of the Camp house is in Box 121 below). See also Flat File 40 for oversize tinted photograph by Harold A. Parker of the James Culbertson garden. There are also informal snapshots as well as copy prints from other collections, and a few photographs of the builders and craftsmen, (including Emil Lange, Box 122) who worked on some of the projects.

Subseries C.

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Drawings

Visual Materials

This series contains architectural working drawings and renderings of buildings. The drawings are rolled or in flat folders, and the number of surviving drawings for each project varies. Renderings are in pencil, paint, or other media.

Subseries 4

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Gamble Family Papers, Records, and Photographs

Visual Materials

Box 178 contains photographs of the Gamble family houses in Cincinnati and summer cottage in Harbor Point, Michigan, their children Cecil, Sidney and Clarence, grandchildren, parents and siblings of David and Mary, family employees, as well as personal correspondence, genealogical information, biographies, and obituaries. Boxes 179 and 180 contain financial records from the 1950s and records of some of the family's philanthropic efforts, mostly related to missionary activities of the Presbyterian Church in Asia. Boxes 181-182 contain books that belonged to the family, including Pedigree of the Gambles of Fermanagh (1899) and Alfred Lief's "It Floats": The Story of Procter and Gamble (1958). Box 183 contains books by and about Sidney Gamble. Box 184 contains lantern slides of early family photographs, taken mostly in Harbor Point; Box 185 contains glass plate negatives, some of same images as in the lantern slides. Box 186 contains art prints and reproductions given by the Gamble family with the house. Box 187 contains a diary kept by Mary Gamble of the early childhood of her first-born son, Cecil. See also Boxes 86-87 which contain photograph albums by Sidney Gamble, including early photographs of the Gamble House.

Subseries B.

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Architectural drawings and maps of Pierre Pharoux

Manuscripts

Architectural drawings, in ink and watercolor, for various buildings in New York, including the house and store of Jacob Quesnel and Country house of M. Chorand, and maps of the French Company tracts on the Black River, Castorland Long Falls and Cataract on the Black River, and a plan of Esperanza Town on the North River.

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Elmer Grey architectural drawings

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A group of 17 architectural drawings by architect Elmer Grey for two residences: Grey's own residence in Pasadena, California, 1910, and the Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Wild residence in Los Angeles, 1929.

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