Verna Cook Shipway Papers

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

box 1, folder 1

Address books

box 1, folder 2

Alien registration booklets and identity cards - England 1945 - 1946

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Includes Certificate of Registration for Warren Shipway, 1945.

box 1, folder 3

Family history scrapbook of Josephine Merryman Van Ness

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Photocopies.

box 1, folder 4, oversize MC04317

Diplomas and certificates 1907 - 1946

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Washington state high school and university diplomas, State of Connecticut Arch. Board License (1935), North Council of Arch. (1937), and American National Red Cross (1946) certificates.

box 1, folder 5

Memorabilia

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Includes a mounted photograph of Verna Cook at the age of 6 (1894), ration and clothing books (1945/46), health certificates (1945), her calling card, American National Red Cross certificate and collage. Also includes a photograph of unidentified people.

box 1, folder 6

Newspaper articles about Shipway 1937 - 1979

box 1, folder 7

Notebook: Personal Reference Guide (Part 1)

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Notes on design, architecture and Mexican and South American culture. Includes newspaper clippings.

box 1, folder 8

Notebook: Personal Reference Guide (Part 2)

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Includes clippings and notes.

box 1, folder 9

Sketchbook

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Artwork.

box 1, folder 10

Sketchbook

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Artwork.

box 1, folder 11

Travel Diary - London 1945 - 1946

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October 23 - April 17. Typescript of diary entries with some editing.

box 1, folder 12

Travel Diary - London 1945 - 1946

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Typescript carbon.

box 2, folder 1

Travel Diary - London 1945 - 1946

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October 23 - January 10.

box 2, folder 2

Travel Diary - London 1946

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January 10 - April 4.

box 2, folder 3

Travel Diary - Paris 1946

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April 5 - May 7.

box 2, folder 4

Travel Log - "Our European Whiz" 1953

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October 15 - November 27.

box 2, folder 5

Travel log - Europe

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Ca. 1960. Includes reference notes.

box 2, folder 6

Travel log - "Go Around; With Lena Gordon" - Europe 1966

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August 22-December 12.

box 2, folder 7, oversize MC04318

Wallpaper samples

CORRESPONDENCE

box 2, folder 8

Architectural licensing 1930 - 1947

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Includes registration materials and brochures.

box 2, folder 9

A-H Miscellaneous

box 3, folder 1

J-M Miscellaneous

box 3, folder 2

P-Y Miscellaneous

WRITINGS

box 3, folder 3

Bird House Architecture: A Bird's Eye View of the Comfortable Well Designed House. THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL 1931

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March.

box 3, folder 4, oversize FB21103

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966)

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Work drawings and photographs.

box 3, folder 5, oversize FB21104

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966)

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Miscellaneous photographs.

box 3, folder 6

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966) - pp.1-99

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Photographs and layouts.

box 3, folder 7, oversize FB21101

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966) - pp.100-199

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Photographs.

box 3, folder 8, oversize FB21105

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966) - pp. 200-247

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Photographs.

box 3, folder 9

DECORATIVE DESIGNS IN MEXICAN HOMES (1966)

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Photographs not used, final discards.

box 3, folder 10

Dignity and the Small House. From HOUSE PLANS FROM THE AMERICAN HOUSE, pp.87-90

box 3, folder 11

Elegant Card Table is Returning

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From FURNITURE MANUFACTURER, July 1931:18-20, 48.

box 3, folder 12

Exemplar of Old and New Colonial Details 1927

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THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL. A series of 12 installments.

box 3, folder 13

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - Foreword and table of contents 1970

box 3, folder 14

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970)

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Lists of photograph headings and captions.

box 3, folder 15, oversize FB21302

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970)

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Drawings and photographs.

box 4, folder 1

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.1-35

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Photographs and layout.

box 4, folder 2

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.36-80

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Photographs and layout.

box 4, folder 3

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.81-107

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Photographs and layout.

box 4, folder 4

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.108-135

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Photographs and layout.

box 4, folder 5

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.136-157

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Photographs and layout.

box 4, folder 6

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.158-189

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Photographs and layout.

box 5, folder 1

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.190-210

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Photographs and layout.

box 5, folder 2

HOUSES OF MEXICO (1970) - pp.211-249

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Photographs and layout.

box 5, folder 3, oversize FB21304

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964)

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Miscellaneous photographs.

box 5, folder 4, oversize FB21303

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - pp.1-109

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Photographs.

box 5, folder 5, oversize FB21401

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - pp. 111-246

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Photographs.

box 5, folder 6

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964)

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Sketches and photographs.

box 5, folder 7

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964)

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Contents, picture locations, foreword and glossary.

box 5, folder 8

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964)

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Photograph captions and credits.

box 5, folder 9

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - Suggested layout

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Part 1.

box 5, folder 10

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - Suggested layout

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Part 2.

box 5, folder 11, oversize FB21402

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - Final layout

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Part 1.

box 5, folder 12, oversize FB21403

MEXICAN HOMES OF TODAY (1964) - Final layout

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Part 2.

box 5, folder 13, oversize FB21404

MEXICAN HOUSE OLD AND NEW (1960)

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Miscellaneous photographs.

box 5, folder 14, oversize FB21405

MEXICAN HOUSE OLD AND NEW (1960)

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Original scale drawings.

box 5, folder 15

MEXICAN HOUSE OLD AND NEW (1960) - pp.1-99

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Photographs.

box 6, folder 1, oversize FB21501

MEXICAN HOUSE OLD AND NEW (1960) - pp.100-187

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Photographs and drawings.

box 6, folder 2, oversize FB21503

MEXICAN HOUSE OLD AND NEW (1960)

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Paste-up proofs.

box 6, folder 3

MEXICAN INTERIORS (1962)

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Photograph, p. 181.

box 6, folder 4, oversize FB21505

Period Furniture 1925

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May - December. Eight installments.

box 6, folder 5

Phyfe Table a Family Heirloom 1931

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From FURNITURE MANUFACTURER, September 1931, pp. 32-33.

box 6, folder 6

MASTERPIECES OF FURNITURE 1967

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Record of complimentary copies and receipt.

box 6, folder 7, oversize FB21502

Residences Designed by Verna Cook Salomonsky, Architect 1936

box 6, folder 8

Small Tables and Stands

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From FURNITURE MANUFACTURER, August 1931, pp. 24-26.

box 6, folder 9

Specification of Labor and Materials Required for the Erection and Completion of Housing Exhibit No.13... 1938 - 1939

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Design for the New York World's Fair. Includes "The Home and Building Center" preliminary proof pages.

box 6, folder 10

Study of Fret Cut Work of the Chippendale Era

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From FURNITURE MANUFACTURER, March 1932, p. 30.

box 6, folder 11

Miscellaneous materials and photographs

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Relating to the Mexican architecture books.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS

Measured Drawings

box 6, folder 12, oversize FB21102

The Architect's Assistant or, an Exemplar of Colonial Mouldings...

box 6, folder 13, oversize FB21201

Drawings of interior doorways

box 6, folder 14, oversize MC04319

Empire Sideboard

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Blueprint of furniture design.

box 6, folder 15

House drawings and details by Edgar and Verna Cook Salomonsky

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Includes Sheets No. 1-3, 5-9, 11-12 and Second Series Sheets No. 1-3, 5-11 Colonial School.

box 6, folder 16

Measured drawings and sketches - Part 1

box 6, folder 17, oversize FB21305

Measured drawings and sketches - Part 2

box 6, folder 18

Measured Drawings of Card Table, Duncan Phyfe Lyre Back Chair, and Double Chair Style of Chippendale

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From FURNITURE MANUFACTURER, 1931-1933.

box 6, folder 19

Measured Drawings of American Maple Table and American Walnut Highboy

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From THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, January and February 1923.

box 6, folder 20, oversize FB21504

Measured drawings of tables

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Includes a photograph.

box 6, folder 21

Sketchbook #2

box 6, folder 22

Sketchbook #4

box 6, folder 23

Sketchbook

Note

"July 30, 1932."

box 6, folder 24

Sketchbook

box 6, folder 25

Measured Colonial Details sketchbook

box 6, folder 26

Miscellaneous measured drawings by others

Photographs and Illustrations

box 6, folder 27

Illustrations of French architecture 1926

Note

From THE SMALLER HOUSES AND GARDENS OF VERSAILLES FROM 1680-1815, by Leigh French, Jr. and Harold D. Eberlein.

box 6, folder 28, oversize FB21202

Homes Designed by Verna Cook Shipway - Part 1

box 6, folder 29, oversize FB21203

Homes Designed by Verna Cook Shipway - Part 2

box 6, folder 30, oversize FB21301

Homes Designed by Verna Cook Shipway - Part 3

box 6, folder 31

Miscellaneous photographs of homes - Interiors and exteriors

box 6, folder 32

Miscellaneous photographs including Mexican design and architecture

Architectural Plans

box 7, folder 1, oversize MC02513

1923: Salomonsky, Edgar - Edgemont, Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 2, oversize MC02514

1926: Phillips - Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans only.

box 7, folder 3, oversize MC02403

1926: Salomonsky, Edgar - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans only.

box 7, folder 4, oversize MC02404

1928: Clark, P.A

Note

Plans only.

box 7, folder 5, oversize MC02512

1928: Crocker, Weyman - Massachusetts

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 6, oversize MC02511

1929: Owen, Margaret - Bedford, N.Y

Note

Details only.

box 7, folder 7, oversize MC02405

1929: Lots 77 and 79 - Berkeley, Scarsdale, N.Y

box 7, folder 8, oversize MC02406

1929: Phillips, Lot #2 - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 9, oversize MC02510

1929: Waught, George M. - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans only.

box 7, folder 10, oversize MC02401

1929: Waught, George, Jr. - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 11, oversize MC02509

1932: Lot #67 - Berkeley, Scarsdale

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 12, oversize MC02508

1933: Brown, Marjorie Warren - North Castle, N.Y

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Plans only.

box 7, folder 13, oversize MC02507

1933: Brown, Marjorie Warren - Whipporwil, N.Y

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Details only.

box 7, folder 14, oversize MC04201

1933: Greenwood, Ernest C

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 15, oversize MC04202

1933: Ledbetter - Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 16, oversize MC04203

1934: Crane - Berkeley Corp. - Taunton Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 17, oversize MC04204

1934: Lot #70 - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 18, oversize MC04205

1934: Lot #71 - Berkeley, Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 19, oversize MC04206

1934: Prange, Dr. Herman - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 20, oversize MC04207

1934: Sheridan - Cortland, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 21, oversize MC04208

1935: Davis, Phillip M. - Greenwich, Connecticut

Note

Plans and details, includes specifications.

box 7, folder 22, oversize MC04209

1935: Lot #46 - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 23, oversize MC04210

1935: Richbell Estates - Taunton Rd., Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 24, oversize MC04211

1936: Claxton, W.M. and Enid - Darien, Connecticut

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Plans only.

box 7, folder 25, oversize MC04212

1936: Cohen, Gertrude P. - Fairfield, Connecticut

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 26, oversize MC04213

1936: Ford, Hannah M. and Thomas M. - Pennsylvania

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 27, oversize MC04214

1936: Friedman - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details, includes specifications.

box 7, folder 28, oversize MC02501

1936: McCutchan, Dr. Frank - Salisburg, North Carolina

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 29, oversize MC02502

1936: Rigers, Frank C. - Scarsdale, N.Y

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Plans and details.

box 7, folder 30, oversize MC02503

1936: Scott, Elmer P. - Pelham, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 31, oversize MC02402

1937: Chandler - Ridgefield, Connecticut

Note

Plans only.

box 7, folder 32, oversize MC02504

1937: Lowenthal - Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 33, oversize MC02505

1937: Spates, Thomas G. - Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 34, oversize MC02506

1937: Kelley, Walter M. - Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 35, oversize MC04301

N.D.: Eckstein, Adolph W. and Grace

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 36, oversize MC04302

1937: World's Fair #1 - Preliminary Scheme for Small House

box 7, folder 37, oversize MC04303

1938: Spencer, Herman, House #2 - Harrison, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 38, oversize MC04304

1938: New York World's Fair Lot #13

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 39, oversize MC04305

1939: Pugliese, Joseph, Lot #17 - Harrison, N.Y

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Details only.

box 7, folder 40, oversize MC04306

1939: Wilson, J.T. - Lynchburg, Virginia

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 41, oversize MC04307

1938: Hotckin, E.W., Game Room Elevation. 1938: Meyer Construction Co. - Munsey Pk., N.Y (plans only)

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1947: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ryan - Los Angeles, California (plans only).

box 7, folder 42, oversize MC04308

1939: Fitzgerald, Dr. Edgar - Wallace, Idaho (details only). Gerar Corp., Dwelling #2 - Scarsdale, N.Y

box 7, folder 43, oversize MC04309

1947: Shipway - Los Angeles, California

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 44, oversize MC04310

1957: Ryway - Rancho Santa Fe,

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Plans only, includes specifications.

box 7, folder 45, oversize MC04311

1959: Ryan - Rancho Santa Fe, CA (details only). 1930: Lot #1 - Scarsdale, N.Y. (plans only)

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1937: Scott - Lake Waramaang, Connecticut (plans only).

box 7, folder 46, oversize MC04312

N.D.: Shipway Drawings

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Miscellaneous.

box 7, folder 47, oversize MC04313

N.D.: Better Homes and Gardens, Bildcost Homes Plans for #806, 604, 510

Note

Includes two unidentified plans.

box 7, folder 48, oversize MC04314

N.D.: House #3 and 4, McLean Alterations, Spanish House, Sales Office - Harrison, N.Y

box 7, folder 49, oversize MC04315

N.D.: Marquart

Note

Plans and details.

box 7, folder 50, oversize MC04316

N.D.: Arthur V. Wilker Residence - Fox Meadow, Scarsdale, N.Y

Note

Plans and details.

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