Charles Over Cornelius papers, 1921-1932

Series I: Professional Papers


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

Summary on Duncan Phyfe.


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

11 photographs


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.