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Monticello Disaster Plan Package: Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Huntington staff, 1970s.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Overview of the Collection

Title: Monticello Disaster Plan Package
Dates (inclusive): 1954-1977
Collection Number: mssMonticello package
Creator: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Extent: Approximately 350 pieces in 2 boxes, 29 folders, 1 roll, and 4 microfilm reels.
Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: Collection of 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, which 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.
Language: English.

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Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Monticello Disaster Plan Package, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Provenance

Gift of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1956-1971.
2 microfilm reels of foundation minutes, gift of Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, November 1977.

Scope and Content

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.
The collection includes:
  • Working drawings of all original furnishings in the House
  • Photographs, black-and-white and color, of the original furnishings in the House
  • Xerox copies 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

Arrangement

Arranged in 2 boxes, 29 folders, 1 rolled piece, and 4 microfilm reel according to item format.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Huntington Library's Online Catalog.  

Subjects

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Monticello (Va.) -- History -- Sources.

Forms/Genres

Architectural drawings (visual works).
Facsimiles.
Photographs.

Additional Contributors

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

 

Boxed and rolled materials

Box 1

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

This box contains:
  • Xerox copies 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
Box 2

Photographs of original furnishings in the House.

mssFAC 781

Working drawings of Monticello furniture [rolled]. Approximately 1970?

 

Folders

Folder 1

Cabinet

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 2

Camera obscura

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 3

Chairs

Physical Description: 17 pieces

Consists of: Arm chair; Campeachy chair; Ceremonial chair; Cherry side chair; Chippendale side chair; Directoire arm chair; Directory side chair; Louis XVI arm chair (3 designs); Revolving chair; Side chair (2 designs); Queen Ann side chair; Walnut side chair.
Folder 4

Chests

Physical Description: 3 pieces

Consists of: Medicine chest; Spice chest; Spirit chest.
Folder 5

Commode seat

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 6

Cupboards

Physical Description: 3 pieces

Consists of: Corner cupboard; Cupboard.
Folder 7

Desks

Physical Description: 5 pieces

Consists of: Hepplewhite desk; Sheraton desk; Traveling desk.
Folder 8

Fire Screen

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 9

Great Clock

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 10

Hepplewhite Secretary

Physical Description: 2 pieces
Folder 11

Highboy

Physical Description: 3 pieces
Folder 12

Jewel box and sewing box

Physical Description: 2 pieces
Folder 13

Ladder (2 copies)

Physical Description: 2 pieces
Folder 14

Mirrors

Physical Description: 4 pieces

Consists of: Federal mirror; Louis XIV mirror; Mirror.
Folder 15

Piano forte

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 16

Polygraph

Physical Description: 3 pieces
Folder 17

Presses (4 designs)

Physical Description: 6 pieces
Folder 18

Stands

Physical Description: 3 pieces

Consists of: Candle stand; Quartet stand; Violin stand.
Folder 19

Tables

Physical Description: 19 pieces

Consists of: Architects table (2 designs); Hepplewhite card table; Hepplewhite pembroke table; Occasional table; Octagonal table; Sheraton card table; Table (3 designs) Tilt top table (2 designs); Tripod table; Universal table; Writing table.
Folder 20

Windsor bench

Physical Description: 1 piece
Folder 21

Entrance building

Physical Description: 36 piece

Consists of: Entrance project (27 designs); Entrance building revisions; Entrance building plot plan; Entrance building details; Entrance building stair railing.
Folder 22

Fire and Lightening Protection

Physical Description: 4 pieces

Consists of: Fire protection (2 designs); Record drawing lightening protection.
Folder 23

Gardening

Physical Description: 5 pieces

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.
Folder 24

Gift shop, superintendent's house

Physical Description: 2 pieces

Consists of: Proposed superintendent's house and roof layout (Monticello); Contour map of proposed gift shop.
Folder 25

Mechanical repairs

Physical Description: 12 pieces

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.
Folder 26

Record drawings, rooms

Physical Description: 19 pieces

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.
Folder 27

Record drawings, rooms

Physical Description: 12 pieces

Record drawings of basement, main floor, second floor, third floor; Consists of: [Basement floor plan?]; [Dome]; Suggested electrical service; [Third floor plan]; New doors in passages 405 and 406, floor 400; Front elevation rooms 201, 202; Mantle room 200, 211, door terrace to south outchamber; Floor plan of dining room
Folder 28

Restorations

Physical Description: 16 pieces

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
Folder 29

Terraces, Col. Randolf's study

Physical Description: 25 pieces

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.
 

Microfilm

Microfilm box

Microfilm of "The Preservation and Restoration of Monticello, 1936-1990"

Physical Description: 1 reel
Microfilm box

Microfilm of "Field Notes"

Physical Description: 1 reel
Envelope

Microfilm of minutes of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Inc. 1923-1976

Physical Description: 2 reels

Note

From originals at the University of Virginia.
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