Manuscripts

Mechanical repairs

Description: Consists of: Layout of existing utilities; [Chimneys]; Restoration-electrical; Wellhead; Hand wrought window chain; Ladder to clock; Pedestal for col. cap., grill in stable, restoration of gate; Restoration of gates, east lawn archaeological survey.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1956-1977.
Call number: mssMonticello
Creator: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1956-1971.; gift of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, November 1977.

Gift shop, superintendent's house

Manuscripts

Consists of: Proposed superintendent's house and roof layout (Monticello); Contour map of proposed gift shop.

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Photocopies of accession cards and inventories; photographs of artwork, silver, china; Great Clock photographs, drawings, and reports; and miscellaneous

Manuscripts

This box contains: Photocopies of accession cards for silhouettes, engravings and paintings in the house. Photographs of the paintings and duplicates of the silhouettes in the House. Photographs of original silver and china in the House. Working drawings of the Great Clock. Photographs (prints and slides) of the Great Clock. Reports on the Great Clock by Mr. Rupert Chandler and Mr. Irvin Rosen. Room-by-room inventory of the original furnishings in the House included as Annex A. The following miscellaneous items: Bush, The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Monticello (color picture book). Bear, Thomas Jefferson's silver (reprint from an article in Antiques). The Monticello Family (catalogue of an exhibition). Xerox of the plan of design for the bookcases in the Library. Kimball, Designs for the Curtains at Monticello. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Thomas Jefferson Silver.

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Restorations

Manuscripts

Restorations to boiler room, structural interior modifications, painting schedule, doors and details, floors; [Outside elevation?]; Floor 400 duct room doors, roof restoration cabinet; Restoration of air closet, details for front entrance alterations to lavatory, southeast terrace

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Terraces, Col. Randolf's study

Manuscripts

Consists of: South elevation of north terrace; Southeast terrace railing details, new doors in passage 114 and 116; Window frame, drains of south terrace, first floor plan; Section through south terrace and honeymoon lodge; Cornice detail southeast terrace, restoration detail of fire door for Washington boiler, bath, house, northwest wing; Restoration of northwest wing, southeast terrace, southeast offices; Side view of north terrace showing grades; M.D. of joist over ice house, second study of roof framing over offices, North terrace, south terrace; Col. Randolf's study, passage north terrace, west terrace; Window sill of study, arch under southeast porch, office roof framing, university, east passage; Law office east elevation.

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Monticello disaster plan package

Manuscripts

These facsimile copies of drawings by Thomas Jefferson and the architectural drawings for the 1946-1953 restoration of Monticello, along with photographs of furnishings, catalogues, and reports were placed at the Huntington Library by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation for safekeeping in case of disaster or damage to the original material. The collection includes architectural drawings (blue prints), photographs, facsimiles of drawings, and microfilm reels.

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