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

Description

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.

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.
Associated people
Jefferson, Thomas, (1743-1826.)
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