The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Gray, Nina                             

Title:               Research and project papers

Dates:             circa 1982-circa 2010

Call No.:         Col. 962

Acc. No.:        16x61

Quantity:        31 boxes

Location:        10 H–L 1

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Nina Rae Rutenburg Gray (1956-2013) was a curator of American decorative arts.  She graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover; Connecticut College (B.A.); and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (M.A.; her thesis was on Leon Marcotte).  She worked as a curator at the New-York Historical Society from 1985-1990, and then worked as an architectural historian and an independent curator at a number of historical sites.  She was especially noted for her work on Tiffany Studios and on aesthetic movement furniture, brass, and other decorative arts.  She was chief curator for the exhibit “A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls,” bringing the women who worked at Tiffany Studios to the public’s knowledge; she also co-authored that exhibit’s catalog.  Ms. Gray wrote other books and articles as well, including a number of articles on picture frames. 

 

Nina Gray was the daughter of Selma Hyde and Alexander Rutenburg of Boston, and wife of John Winterbotham (Jack) Gray.  Her personal collecting interests were a reflection of her professional interest, and included brass doorknobs, japoniste buttons, Manolo Blahnik shoes and Betty Cook jewelry.  She was a ceramics artist and created beaded jewelry.  She worked to promote historic preservation in New York City. 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Files and research notes created and accumulated by Nina Rutenburg Gray during her career.  Of particular interest are her files on Leon Marcotte, an interior decorator and furniture maker working in New York City in the latter half of the 19th century.   There are also files about the Cyrus Hall McCormick house in Chicago, which was decorated by Marcotte.  (The house no longer exists.)  Other late 19th century cabinetmakers are documented as well.  A number of files pertain to the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York, and to the Park Avenue Armory (the Seventh Regiment Armory); apparently she was hired to oversee the renovating the interiors of the former site and was the curator-in-charge at the latter, during renovations to that building.   Other files are on picture frames, especially late 19th/early 20th century frames designed by architect Stanford White and frames purchased by Charles L. Freer for his art collection.  As well, there are files on brass decorated in the aesthetic taste of the late 19th century.

 

           

ORGANIZATION

 

The papers came grouped by subject: Park Avenue Armory, general files, frames, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (the box which held these files was labeled William H. Vanderbilt house), cabinetmakers files (including files on styles and a few architects), Leon Marcotte (in this box were also found files pertaining to Cyrus Hall McCormick house), aesthetic brass, and miscellaneous files.  However, within some of those groups, many of the folders were not labeled, and some papers were not in folders at all.  In these cases, folder titles were supplied and loose papers were grouped by subject.

 

The files are now arranged thusly:

General files: Boxes 1-7;

Park Avenue Armory: Boxes 8-10;

Frames: Boxes 11-14;

Vanderbilt Mansion: Boxes 15-20;

Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles, Boxes 21-25;

Leon Marcotte, Boxes 25-28;

Cyrus Hall McCormick house, Boxes 28-29;

Aesthetic movement, Boxes 29-30; and

Oversize box 31.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are mostly in English, with some in French.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

 

 

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Gift of Jack Gray, husband of Nina Gray.

           

 

RELATED MATERIALS

 

The James Maher papers in this repository were also a gift of Jack Gray.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Marcotte, Leon.

            McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1809-1884

            Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 1856-1938.

 

Topics:

            Park Avenue Armory.

            Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.)

 

            Aesthetic movement (Art)

            Cabinetmakers – United States – 19th century.

            Interior decorators – 19th century.

            Picture frames and framing.

           

                        Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, Dutchess County, N.Y.)

 

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 10 H–L 1

 

 

Box 1: general files

 

Folder 1:          Architecture: general

 

Folder 2:          Articles: miscellaneous topics

 

Folder 3:          Artists, art patrons, folk art: articles

 

Folder 4:          Bibliography

 

Folder 5:          Carpets, rugs, textiles: articles

 

Folder 6:          Construction [of New York buildings, chiefly copies of photographs]

 

Folder 7:          Construction [of New York buildings]: slides

 

Folder 8:          Construction: “The Rise and Fall of New York: Building and Unbuilding Manhattan,” paper by Nina Rutenberg [Gray]

 

Folders 9-10:   Correspondence, 1892-1984 (chiefly pertaining to Nina’s research on Leon Marcotte) and 2006-2009           

 

Folder 11:        “Diana”: St. Gaudens statue on Madison Square Gardens

 

 

Box 2: general files

 

Folder 1:          Frick, Henry Clay: notes

 

Folder 2:          Furniture: articles

 

Folder 3:          Furniture: articles, notes, photographs

 

Folder 4:          Gay, Walter [artist]

 

Folder 5:          Glass and ceramics: articles

                                    (includes stained glass)

 

Folder 6:          Gray, Nina: articles for Antiques America.com

 

Folder 7:          Gray, Nina: resume and business cards

 

Folders 8-10:   Greene and Greene

 

 

Box 3: general files

 

Folders 1-2:     The Hermitage (Waldwic Cottage, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey)          

 

Folder 3:          Historic houses

 

Folder 4:          Interior decoration: articles, bibliography

 

Folder 5:          Interior decoration: French taste

 

Folder 6:          Interior decoration: Gilded Age

                                    [see also oversize box]

 

Folder 7:          Interior decoration and decorators: notes

 

Folder 8:          Jewelry and enameling

 

Folder 9:          Kelekian, Dikran Khan [collector]

 

 

Box 4: general files

 

Folder 1:          Lawnfield (James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Mentor, Ohio)

 

Folder 2:          Lectures by Nina Gray

 

Folder 3:          Maher, James

 

Folder 4:          Marcotte, Leon Alexandre: American National Biography entry by Nina Gray

 

Folders 5-6:     Meadow Croft (John Ellis Roosevelt house, Sayville, Long Island, N.Y.)

 

Folders 7-8:     Meadow Croft (John Ellis Roosevelt house): photographs

 

 

Box 5: general files

 

Folder :1          Museum collections

 

Folder 2:          Newport, Rhode Island

 

Folder 3:          New York City: buildings, style, furniture

 

Folder 4:          New York City: families

 

Folder 5:          New York City: residences of Henry G. Marquand, A. T. Stewart, John Jacob Astor

 

Folder 6:          New York City: preservation

 

Folders 7-8:     New-York Historical Society: Artistic Houses exhibit (1988)

 

Folder 9:          Notes: miscellaneous topics [more than one topic in a notebook]

                                    [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 6: general files

 

Folder 1:          Notes: miscellaneous topics

                                    [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and world’s fairs

 

Folder 3:          Polo/Ralph Lauren: Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House

 

Folder 4:          Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: notes, especially about Top Cottage

 

Folder 5:          Silver: articles

 

Folder 6:          Tiffany & Co.

 

Folder 7:          Tiffany Studio: notes

 

Folder 8:          Vanderbilt, Cornelius, II: One West 57th St.

 

 

Box 7: general files

 

Folders 1-2:     Vanderbilt, Frederick

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt, Frederick: travels and data on his life

 

Folders 4-5:     Vanderbilt, Lila Osgood (married William S. Webb): Shelburne Farms

 

Folder 6:          Vanderbilt, William H., and William K.

 

Folder 7:          Vanderbilt family mansions

 

 

 

Box 8: Park Avenue Armory

 

Note: one-third of the files pertaining to the Park Avenue Armory (Seventh Regiment Armory) were not in folders; none of the folders were labeled, so all folder titles have been supplied by processor of the collection

 

Folder 1:          Park Avenue Armory

 

Folders 2-3:     Park Avenue Armory: articles about the building                 

 

Folder 4:          Park Avenue Armory: articles about decorators

 

Folders 5-6:     Park Avenue Armory: articles about the Seventh Regiment 

 

Folder 7:          Park Avenue Armory: Arts and archives project advisory committee

 

Folders 8-9:     Park Avenue Armory: collection and 1917 appraisal (copy)

 

 

Box 9: Park Avenue Armory

 

Folder 1:          Park Avenue Armory: conservation survey: notes

 

Folder 2:          Park Avenue Armory: documents about decorating Company I room (original documents, not copies)

                                    Includes “Memoranda Specification of work to be done in Company I Room,” not dated; Report of The Committee on Redecoration I Co.,” not dated; estimate for upholstery for Co. 9 [sic], from R.J. Haddock, Dec. 19, 1899; estimate from Geo. C. Flint Co. for Co. I, Dec. 16, 1899; bill from Geo. C. Flint to Co. I, March 24, 1900

 

Folder 3:          Park Avenue Armory: documents about decorating and the building (photocopies)

                                    [see also oversize box]

 

Folder 4:          Park Avenue Armory: grant requests, etc.

 

Folders 5-6:     Park Avenue Armory: notes  

                                    [see note on folder 6 about arrangement in that folder]

 

Folder 7:          Park Avenue Armory: paper by Paul Ballard Haydon: “The Seventh Regiment Armory: An Investigation and Analysis of a Herter Brothers’ Interior”               

 

Folder 8:          Park Avenue Armory: photographs (reproductions, not originals)

                                    [see also CD’s of photographs in Box 10]

 

Folders 9-10:   Park Avenue Armory: preservation

 

 

Box 10: Park Avenue Armory

 

Folder 1:          Park Avenue Armory: The Seventh Regiment Gazette

                                    (June 1906, Jan. 1911, April/May 1911, April 1931, Oct. 1932)

 

Folder 2:          Park Avenue Armory: thesis by Sophia Duckwork Schachter: “The Seventh Regiment Armory of New York city: A History of Its Construction and Decoration”

 

Folder 3:          Park Avenue Armory: tiles

 

Folder 4:          Park Avenue Armory: CDs of photographs

 

 

Box 11: Frames

 

Folder 1:          Frames: “American-made Picture Frames from the Colonial Era,” paper by Jessica Foy (1987)

 

Folders 2-4:     Frames: Articles

 

Folder 5:          Frames: Articles by Nina Gray

 

Folder 6:          Frames: Carrig-Rohane

 

Folder 7:          Frames: Eli Wilner & Co.

 

Folders 8-9:     Frames: Foster Brothers

 

 

Box 12: Frames

 

Folder 1:          Frames: “The Frame in America, 1700-1900: A Survey of Fabrication Techniques and Styles,” by William Adair

 

Folders 2-4:     Frames: Freer, C. L.: frame purchases

 

Folder 5:          Frames: Freer Gallery

 

Folder 6:          Frames: French impressionist frames

 

Folder 7:          Frames: notes

 

Folder 8:          Frames: notes, chiefly about gilders and frame makers

                                    [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 13: Frames

 

Folder 1:          Frames: notes, chiefly about gilders and frame makers

                                    [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Frames: photographs and pictures

 

Folder 3:          Frames: Prendergasts

 

Folder 4:          Frames: “The Process of Gilding and Bronzing Picture Frames” (1884; photocopy)

 

Folders 5-6:     Frames: White, Stanford

 

Folder 7:          Frames: White, Stanford: auction catalog, 1907 (photocopy)

 

Folder 8           Frames: White, Stanford: “Beyond Architecture: The Frames of Stanford White”: slide lecture

 

Folder 9:          Frames: White, Stanford: chiefly correspondence (copies)

 

 

Box 14: Frames

 

Folder 1:          Frames: White, Stanford: correspondence (copies)

 

Folder 2:          Frames: White, Stanford: inventory

 

Folder 3:          Frames: White, Stanford: frame makers

 

Folder 4:          Frames: White, Stanford: notes

 

Folder 5:          Frames: White, Stanford: patrons

 

Folder 6:          Frames: White, Stanford: photographs and pictures

 

Folder 7:          Frames: White, Stanford: residence, 121 East 21st Street

 

Folder 8:          Frames: White, Stanford: “Within Gilded Borders,” by Nina Gray

 

 

Box 15: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folders 1-2:     Vanderbilt Mansion NHS

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: A.H. Davenport Co. (furniture maker)

 

Folder 4:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Architectural drawings [copies]

 

Folder 5:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Architectural plans and drawings [copies]

 

Folder 6:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Bibliography

 

Folder 7:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Coach house

 

Folder 8:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Codman, Ogden (interior designer)

 

Folder 9:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Correspondence

 

Folder 10:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Duveen

 

Folder 11:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Edward F. Caldwell & Co. (electric light fixtures)

 

Folder 12:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Exterior

 

 

Box 16: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folder 1:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Frederick Vanderbilt family: preliminary report, 1954

 

Folder 2:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Furnishing notes

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: furnishings: general

 

Folder 4:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: furniture: bedroom

 

Folder 5:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Glaenzer, Georges (interior designer)

 

Folder 6:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Herter Brothers (furniture)

 

Folders 7-9:     Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Historian’s research notes           

 

 

Box 17: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folders 1-2:     Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Inventories

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Kitchen

 

Folder 4:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Knauss, Alex: interview  (gardener on estate)

 

Folder 5:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: McKim, Charles F.

 

Folder 6:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: McKim, Mead & White

 

Folder 7:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: McKim, Mead & White: architectural drawings collection [lists]

 

Folder 8:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: National Park Service files

                                    [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 18: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folders 1-3:     Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: National Park Service files

                                    [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 4:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Norcross Brothers (construction firm)

 

Folders 5-6:     Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: notebook of information

 

Folder 7:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Painters and paintings

 

 

Box 19: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folder 1:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Pavilions and bridge

 

Folder 2:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Photographs, chiefly of interior, and some architectural drawings [copies]

                                    [see also oversize box; see also additional photographs beginning with folder 12]

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Poirer & Remon

 

Folder 4:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: “A Proposal for the Re-interpretation of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York,” by Neil G. Larson, 1975

 

Folder 5:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Silver

 

Folder 6:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Sub-contractors

 

Folder 7:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Textiles, including tapestries and rugs

 

Folder 8:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Tour leader’s manual, 1957, and handbook, 1958

 

Folder 9:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Wallpaper

 

Folder 10:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: [Wallpaper samples? – folder was not labeled]

 

Folder 11:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Worcester, Eleanor B.: interview [guest at house]

 

Folder 12:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: slides [from slide boxes]

 

Folder 13:        Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: photos: vestibule, reception hall, north foyer, dining room, lobby, den, south foyer, living room

 

 

Box 20: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Hyde Park, New York)

 

Folder 1:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: photos: grand stairway, second floor hall, south foyer, Mr. Vanderbilt’s bedroom, Mrs. Vanderbilt’s bedroom

 

Folder 2:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: photos: Mrs. Vanderbilt’s boudoir, large red bedroom, small red bedroom, north foyer, blue bedroom, mauve bedroom, green bedroom, third floor hall, striped [pink] room, pink [rose] bedroom, lavender bedroom, empire bedroom

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: photos and slides: green bedroom, bathrooms, interior and exterior views, storage

 

 

 

Box 21: Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles

 

Folder 1:          Cabinetmakers: A.H. Davenport & Co.

 

Folder 2:          Cabinetmakers: Alavoine, Lucien

 

Folder 3:          Cabinetmakers: Allard, Jules (Allard & Sons)

 

Folder 4:          Cabinetmakers: Allen & Brothers (Philadelphia)

 

Folder 5:          Cabinetmakers: Baudouine, Charles

 

Folder 6:          Cabinetmakers: Belter, John Henry

 

Folder 7:          Cabinetmakers: Brooks, Thomas

 

Folder 8:          Cabinetmakers: Bruner & Moore

 

Folder 9:          Cabinetmakers: Codman, Ogden [also architect, designer]

 

Folder 10:        Cabinetmakers: Cottier & Company

 

Folder 11:        Cabinetmakers: Dessoir, Julius

 

Folder 12:        Cabinetmakers: Eliaers, Augustus

 

Folder 13:        Cabinetmakers: Ellin & Kitson

 

Folder 14:        Cabinetmakers: Fourdinois (firm: Paris)

 

Folder 15:        Cabinetmakers: French furniture

 

Folder 16:        Cabinetmakers: Frullini, Luigi

 

Folder 17:        Cabinetmakers: Furness, Frank [also an architect]

 

Folder 18:        Cabinetmakers: Guerin, P.E. [also hardware]

 

Folder 19:        Cabinetmakers: Hagen, Ernest

 

 

Box 22: Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles

 

Folder 1:          Cabinetmakers: Henkels, George

 

Folders 2-4:     Cabinetmakers: Herter Brothers        

 

Folder 5:          Cabinetmakers: Herts Brothers

 

Folder 6:          Cabinetmakers: Hunzinger, George

 

Folder 7:          Cabinetmakers: Hutchings/Hutchins, E. W.

 

Folder 8:          Cabinetmakers: Jelliff, John

 

Folder 9:          Cabinetmakers: Kimbel & Cabus

 

Folder 10:        Cabinetmakers: Lannuier, Charles-Honoré

 

Folder 11:        Cabinetmakers: Lejambre, Alphone (and family)

 

 

Box 23: Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles

 

Folder 1:          Cabinetmakers: Lienau, Detlef

 

Folder 2:          Cabinetmakers: Meeks, J. & J. W.

 

Folder 3:          Cabinetmakers: Pabst, Daniel

 

Folder 4:          Cabinetmakers: Phyfe, Duncan

 

Folder 5:          Cabinetmakers: Platt, George

 

Folders 6-7:     Cabinetmakers: Pottier & Stymus

(includes article, paper, and notes of David A. Hanks)

 

Folder 8:          Cabinetmakers: Ringuet-LePrince, August-Emile

 

Folder 9:          Cabinetmakers: Roudillon

 

Folder 10:        Cabinetmakers: Roux, Alexander

 

Folder 11:        Cabinetmakers: Schastey, George

 

Folder 12:        Cabinetmakers: Stickley family (chiefly Gustav)

 

Folder 13:        Cabinetmakers: Sypher & Co. (were also dealers)

 

Folder 14:        Cabinetmakers and designers: various

 

Folder 15:        Architects: Hunt, Richard Morris

 

 

Box 24: Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles

 

Folder 1:          Architects: McKim, Mead & White

 

Folder 2:          Architects: Trumbauer, Horace

 

Folder 3:          Architects and architecture: articles

 

Folder 4:          Styles: Aesthetic movement

 

Folder 6:          Styles: “The American Home”

 

Folder 6:          Styles: Arts and Crafts

 

Folders 7-8:     Styles: Egyptian Revival        

 

Folder 9:          Styles: French details in America

                                    [continues in next box]

 

 

Box 25: Cabinetmakers, architects, and styles; and Leon Marcotte

 

Folder 1:          Styles: French details in America

                                    [continued from previous box]

 

Folder 2:          Styles: Gothic Revival

 

Folder 3:          Styles: Interiors

 

Folder 4:          Styles: Neo-Classicism

 

Folder 5:          Styles: New York style

 

Folder 6:          Styles: Renaissance Revival

 

Folder 7:          Styles: Renaissance Revival: Jedediah Wilcox house

 

Folder 8:          Styles: miscellaneous: articles

 

Folders 9-10:   Marcotte, Leon

 

 

Box 26: Leon Marcotte

 

 

Folder 1:          Marcotte, Leon

 

Folders 2-5:     Marcotte, Leon [chiefly papers by Nina Rutenburg/Nina Gray]

 

Folder 6:          Marcotte, Leon: Albany [New York]

 

Folder 7:          Marcotte, Leon: Armsmear, home of Samuel Colt

 

 

Box 27: Leon Marcotte

 

Folders 1-2:     Marcotte, Leon: article for American Furniture

 

Folder 3:          Marcotte, Leon: bills/invoices for his work [photocopies]

 

Folder 4:          Marcotte, Leon: correspondence [photocopies]

 

Folder 5:          Marcotte, Leon: exhibition: “Leon Marcotte and the French Taste in America”

 

Folder 6:          Marcotte, Leon: lectures

 

Folder 6:          Marcotte, Leon: lectures: photographs

 

Folder 7:          Marcotte, Leon: pictures [also notes]

 

Folder 8:          Marcotte, Leon: will

 

 

Box 28: Leon Marcotte; Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago)

 

Folder 1:          Marcotte, Leon: photographs, and a few letters

 

Folder 2:          Marcotte, Leon: slides

 

Folder 3:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago)

 

Folder 4:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): bids from Herter Brothers, Pottier & Stymus, and Leon Marcotte

 

Folder 5:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): Colten building contracts

 

Folder 6:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): estimates from Herter Brothers, Pottier & Stymus, W. & J. Sloane, and Cottier & Co.

 

Folder 7:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): Marcotte bills and estimates

 

 

Box 29: Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago); Aesthetic movement

 

Folders 1-2:     Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): notes on furnishings         

 

Folder 3:          Cyrus Hall McCormick house (Chicago): photographs [copies]

 

Folder 4:          Aesthetic brass: advertisements

 

Folder 5:          Aesthetic brass: “Antique Builders’ Hardware: Knobs & Accessories,” supplement no. 1, revised edition (1992)

           

Folder 6:          Aesthetic brass: articles

 

Folder 7:          Aesthetic brass: bibliography

 

Folder 8:          Aesthetic brass: door hardware

 

Folder 9:          Aesthetic brass: The Doorknob Collector

                                    [issues 129, 134, 136-139, 141-144, 146-147, 151-152, 155-158, 162-163, 169, 171-175, 177-178, 181]

 

Folder 10:        Aesthetic brass: lighting fixtures

 

Folder 11:        Aesthetic brass: notes

 

 

Box 30: Aesthetic movement

 

Folder 1:          Aesthetic brass: patents

 

Folder 2:          Aesthetic brass: photographs

 

Folder 3:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Bradley & Hubbard Mfg. Co., 1883/1884 and no. 46 (June 1888)

 

Folder 4:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Branford Lock Works, 1886

 

Folder 5:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Buhl Sons & Co., 1884

 

Folder 6:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Luetke Art Metal Work, no date

 

Folder 7:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Mallory, Wheeler & Co., 1882

 

Folder 8:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Manhattan Brass Company, no date

 

Folder 9:          Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Norwalk Lock Company, 1890

 

Folder 10:        Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: P. & F. Corbin, 1881 and 1895

 

Folder 11:        Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Reading Hardware Co., 1897

 

Folder 12:        Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Co., v. 2 (1875), revised prices to v. 2 (1877), no number (1885), v. 7 (1887)

 

Folder 13:        Aesthetic brass: trade catalogs: Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., no. 10 (1884) and no. 12 (1889)

 

Folder 14:        Aesthetic tiles and ceramics

 

 

Box 31 (oversize box):

 

Folder 1:          Interior decoration: Gilded Age

 

Folder 2:          Park Avenue Armory: documents about decorating and the building (photocopies)

 

Folder 3:          Vanderbilt Mansion NHS: Photographs, chiefly of interior, and some architectural drawings [copies]