Description: 1. Plans for "Garden treatment between Mr. Lamont's and Mr. Milliken's houses", 721-723 Park Avenue, New York 2. Paving plan No. 2 for the garden of Gerrish H. Milliken Esq., 723 Park Avenue, New York
Description: Tapestries designed by Hosteen Klah from Navajo sand paintings at the Mary Cabot Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, NM. Mrs. Wheelwright devoted much time to the study of Navajo ceremonial arts. 10 slides (a-j) depict tapestries, 5 slides (k-o) depict Stanta Fe environs/Navajo Reservation. Photo 0411 a: Eagle Chasing Chant/Eagles, house and food animals Photo 0411 b: The Red Ant Chant/Horned Toads and Ant's Houses Photo 0411 c: Eagle Chasing Chant/Directional eagles, bows, arrows Photo 0411 d: The Red Ant Chant/Sky, earth, eagle, Horned Toad Photo 0411 e: Eagle Chasing Chant/Armored eagle catcher & eagles Photo 0411 f: The Red Ant Chant/Emergence place and bear guards Photo 0411 g: Eagle Chasing Chant/Eagles are called Sky People Photo 0411 h: Eagle Chasing Chant/Eagle catcher and rabbit trap Photo 0411 i: The Red Ant Chant/Horned Toad warriors & ant path Photo 0411 j: The Red Ant Chant/Horned Toad Man & weapons; Ants [show more]
Description: Reproduction of the First American Map of the United States in 1784, compiled and engraved by Abel Buell. Reproduced by American Heritage, the Magazine of History, from an original copy at the New Jersey State Historical Society.
Description: Questions about the directions of the Republican Party in the United States, featuring comments and Photograph of Robert Pyle, NEH resident and former director of the library.
Description: A photocopy of authorization from Sect. of Treasury to acquire or purchase for the United States land to use for Life-Saving Stations, Houses of Refuge & Beacons.
Description: Fourteen generations of Gotts in The United States, beginning with the immigrant ancestor, Charles Gott (b. 1598) from Cambridge, England.
Description: This letter was written to Mr. Clark in 1865, while Jacob was at sea, five years before his marriage. The letter says: Philadelphia, Dec 23/65 Mr. Clark Sir What money you have for me from the Schr [Schooner?] please pay it over toward my Taxes. I am loading general cargo for Savannah. I got a fair Freight, but business is very dull & I shall be a long time loading. Coal to Boston is $3.00 & very scarce. There is a great deal of ice in the river. I am afraid it will close before I get out. Res. yours J.W. Carroll [show more]
Description: Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh are standing at the side of Lockheed Vega Model 5 Executive NC395H airplane while stopping at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. en route to South America. The five-place monoplane was manufactured during August 1929 by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California. It left the factory with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp B engine (S/N 1815) of 450 HP. The aircraft was loaned to Col. Lindbergh by Morgan Belmont (1892–1953), the son of August Belmont Jr. who built the Belmont Park Racetrack in New York, for Lindbergh’s 7000 mile South American trip. The Lindberghs took off from Bolling Field, the first stop on their trip (which had begun at Roosevelt Field on Long Island) on September 18, 1929. The Lockheed Vega model was designed by John Knudsen Northrop (1895-1981) and Gerard Freebairn Vultee (1900-1938) and manufactured by Lockheed Aircraft Limited and first flown on July 4, 1927. Lockheed delivered the Vega 5 in 1929." [show more]
Description: An unaddressed letter by Harold Peabody regarding a hearing in Washington, D.C. about road construction in Lafayette National Park. Peabody believes further development of the park should be prohibited and is discouraged by proposals for carriage roads through the Bubble Pond Valley. People Mentioned: George Wharton Pepper
Description: ""Just as it had been Edsel's [Edsel Ford] idea to buy Lincoln to give the company an elegant car to match GM's Cadillac, so in the midthirties, as Ford's competitive position continued to slip, he tried to get a part of the middle-priced market through the Zephyr. The Zephyr began as the Briggs Manufacturing Company ""dream car."" which Edsel saw in prototype at the 1933 automobile show. He was excited by it, having wanted for some time a car in price and quality between the Ford and the Lincoln. He bought the rights from Briggs and then brought in Eugene T. Gregorie, a former boat designer, to carry out his vision of a sleek auto for the middle-class buyer."" - “The Fords: An American Epic” by Peter Collier and David Horowitz, p. 158-159 - illustration #40 - 1987 Apparently design direction worked both ways. ""The design (above the water line) of speed boats of the 30's, 40's and 50's was influenced by automobile design of that era."" - Interview with Charles Morrill - 10/20/08 Morrill - Charles Barrett Morrill (1934-) ""Bink was obsessed with Lincoln Zephyr cars. He stove up three within two weeks. They all had this streamlined look."" - Interview with Ralph Stanley October 20, 2008 A photograph of the Lincoln Zephyr that is supremely evocative of the design era that influenced Bink Sargent appears in “Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company,” curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. 199 plates and a frontispiece. Large folio (16 by 18.25 inches), bound in original half maroon calf over linen covered boards, in a slipcase. [Verona: Stamperia Valdonega for] The White Oak Press, 1985. Limited edition of 1200. Copy Number 466 in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library. See: Plate 188, Lincoln Zephyr 1936 by Grancel Fitz (1894–1963) The original photograph, ""Lincoln Zephyr with Graf Zeppelin,"" is in the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987. [show more]
Description: Frances Wharton (Pepper) Scott was the widow of Joseph Alison Scott. She built her cottage, Grand Pré, in Southwest Harbor, Maine, after his death.