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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Consists of: Paving in parking area; South outchamber field maps; Design for east lawn, walks, plots, etc.; Contour survey of garden; Contour map of entrance area.
mssMonticello
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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.
mssMonticello
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Contains: Working drawings of Monticello furniture, mssFAC 781, and four reels of microfilm: 1. "The Preservation of Monticello, 1936-1990," 2. "Field Notes," 3. and 4. Meeting minutes of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc., 1923-1976 (from originals at the University of Virginia.
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Consists of: Measured drawing of dining room; Mantle room 207, 212; Record drawing floor 100, 200, 300, 400, sections; Room 206, 208; Plot plan, remedial construction on floors; Section A-A, B-B, 3-3, 4-4, 2-2, rooms 306, 305, 303, 301; [Floor Plan]; Southwest basement; Entrance building, superintendent's house porch, steel girders, floor framing; Entrance building, duct cut off, stairs in room 106; Alterations to dining room, floor plan for conservatory.
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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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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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