Manuscripts

Architectural drawings and maps of Pierre Pharoux

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1795.
Call number: mssHM 2028
Creator: Pharoux, Pierre(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Karl W. Hiersemann, February 1927.
Dimensions: 11 x 20 cm :
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Architectural Drawings

Visual Materials

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.

Subseries A.

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Manuscripts

"Cataract rejects (Reject - San Juan and Cataract)": 1944 & 1945. Scene notes state: "Boats in front of shop - at slide - Norm on cable - plaque base of monument SLC - log house - view down at Hole in Rock - come down to boats at Dark C - new arch, pan up - side pan under Rainbow - pan up to small window - flash flood - Norm gets hair cut - fishing - swimming - Glen C scenes - fossils - Elephants Feet - water action at Hidden Passage - Indian relics - Glen C scenes - Wall St. - Ed shaves and admires self - snail - boiler - put boats in at Hat - [sheet missing?] - back boat to river - Thompson Station - Baldwin - road to Moab [?] - load boats at Lees - Glen C river shots - boats drift on San Juan - road to landing, Hat - Rainbow Bridge - Mala, top of bridge - M puts on preserver - boats up on rocks - oil engine - dredge - Norm on trolly - Seagull Monument - Map: Utah & Arizona - plane takes off - map: Glen Canyon - map: Cat Canyon - map: Narrow Canyon - make airport - air shot - fast get away - lie in falls - [sheet missing?]. [entries: Cataract Canyon; San Juan River; 1944 expedition; 1945 expedition; Norman Nevills; Hole in the Rock; Dark Canyon; arch (identify); Rainbow Bridge; swimming; Glen Canyon; fossils; Elephants Feet; Hidden Passage; Indian relics; Ed Hudson; Marston twins; airplane; aerial views; oarboats; sadirons; cable at Mexican Hat; Mexican Hat; Gem Canyon; (Nevills daughter); waterfall; Otis Marston; Marble Canyon; Nevills Expedition; lining; Goosenecks; Thompson (town); "San Juan", "Hidden Passage"; Margaret Marston; "Wen"]

R030

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[Plan of the town of Esperanza situated on the west bank of the North River opposite Hudson]

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Plan of the ideal city Esperanza, designed by architect Pierre Pharoux for Edward Livingston, Brockholst Livingston, and John R. Livingston. With manuscript ink notations marking numerous plots "B" or "BL" (i.e., Brockholst Livingston) and "JRL" (i.e., John R. Livingston). The city was envisioned as the main port on the west side of the Hudson River for goods coming from western New York and beyond. The project was a speculative venture by the Livingston family, powerful New York landowners of the time. The area is now the modern village of Athens, New York. Drafted by Pierre Pharoux and engraved by Charles Balthazar Julie Fevret de Saint Mémin.

653033

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Pierre Joseph Jeunot journal

Manuscripts

The journal that Jeunot kept during his service in the West India Islands and Virginia. The manuscript contains detailed information on vessels of the French fleet, the combined French and Spanish fleets, together with a list 124 English vessels, and gives detailed accounts of the French operations at Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Kitts, Tobago, and St. Christopher as well as a long account of the engagement in Chesapeake Capes (Sept. 5, 1781). The manuscript also includes the Articles of Capitulation of the Islands of Tobago and St. Christopher, as well as the "Capitulation of York in Virginia made between Lord Cornwallis Commander General of the British Troops in Virginia and Maryland..." and a list of the French regiments engaged in the siege of Yorktown, together with a list of the ships engaged and the names of their commanders. Also included are contains directions for making fuses, disquisitions of the artillery employed in the French fleet, some poems, religious reflections, scattered daily entries penned in the early 1800s (in a different hand), etc.

mssHM 578

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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.

mssJefferson

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Album of Japanese zoological drawings

Manuscripts

Brush and ink drawings, with watercolor, of a variety of Japanese fauna (approximately 70 drawings). Individual images on laid paper cut out and pasted onto Japanese paper. Several of the images have contemporary notes of zoological information such as species names, size, where caught, habits, and comments about when and where drawn. The animals include fish and crustaceans, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, owls, and insects. Several are dated 1804 and 1807.

mssHM 83976

Architectural drawings and maps of Pierre Pharoux

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