Box 1 Folder 1
Incomplete manuscript, "Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe", 1923
Chapters 6 & 7 are missing.
Box 1 Folder 2
Manuscript, Duncan Phyfe Exhibition, 1922
1922 Met exhibition text includes miscellaneous notes with historical timeline.
Box 1 Folder 3
Manuscript, unidentified, undated
Box 1 Folder 4
The Dey House, Restoration (Preakness Valley, NJ), undated
4 blueprints: one each of first floor, second fllor, roof, and elevation.
Box 1 Folder 5
John deWitt Peltz, Library Alteration (136 East 79th Street, New York, NY), 1931
24 blueprints; and 14 drawings of plan, column base and baseboard.
Box 1 Folder 6
Mrs. Coleman DuPont, Mantelpieces (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY), undated
2 pencil on trace drawings.
Box 1 Folder 7
Wall Sconce by Kantack & Company, undated
2 photographs and 2 pencil and color pencil drawings on trace paper.
Box 1 Folder 8
Notebooks and miscellaneous notes/drawings, undated
16 items: 4 notebooks includes drawings, building details, history, house tour notes, decorative arts/porcelain, and 12 miscellaneous notes/drawings.
Box 1 Folder 9
Correspondence, 1923, 1929 to 1932
With Vendors and Clients.
Box 1 Folder 10
Vendor invoices, 1928 to 1930, and 1932
Box 1 Folder 11
Catalogs of furniture
6 items : The Karl Freund Collection (includes letter from Mabel Lindsay Gillespie possibly to furnish her property, Langdon Farm in Sherwood, Maryland, dated May 18, 1932); Charak Furniture; Selections from the Work of Simons and Lapham, Architects (Charleston, South Carolina); MOMA's catalogue, Modern Architecture for Interational Exhibition (1932); Ginsburg & Levy, Inc.'s list, Cabinet-Makers in Colonial and Early Federal America.
Box 2 Folder 01
Paintcards, undated
13 items, most with details of where the paint was used in which section/room of the American Wing of the Met.
Box 2 Folder 02
Silhouette prints of Dyke Mill Stencils in the Pennsylvania Museum, 1922
Some of the silhouettes were used in his "Early American Furniture" book.
Box 2 Folder 03
Visual Material, Dey House (Preakness Valley, NJ), 1931
Box 2 Folder 04
Visual Material, Furniture, undated
27 photos (including 9 stuck together), 14 negatives, 9 glass negatives (including 1 broken), and Antiquarian Magazine reprint of early American Franklin stoves
Box 2 Folder 05
Visual Material, Houses, undated
113 photographs, 38 negatives, 9 postcards of Dey House, Baron Stiegels House, Delaware Bank, Modern House, Jackson House, among others that are unidentified.
Box 2 Folder 06
Visual Material, Haddon Hall (England), undated
Haddon Hall photograph album of 16 pictures, and separately, 9 postcards.
Box 2 Folder 07 to 08
Visual Material, Foreign Houses, undated
102 commerical photographs and 167 postcards.
Box 3 Folder 01 to 02
Correspondence, 1921-1924, 1926-1930
68 letters from sister, mother, brother-in-law (Thomas King Whipple), Katharine Cornelius (first wife?), Jessie Baxter Black, and Alfred L. Donaldson.
Box 3 Folder 03
Financial materials
Check registers (2), check holder, deposit receipts, professional memberships, invoices, stock purchases
Box 3 Folder 04
Photographs, undated
Family, friends, boat trip.
Box 3 Folder 05
Miscellaneous
3 items: phone list [possibly from Holden collection?]; The Architectural Record, Volume 81, Number 5, May 1937; The Texaco Star, July-August 1932 issue.