Key to Arrangement

Mary Louise Lawser biographical materials

Correspondence, 1941-1957: incoming letters and copies of replies, schedules, receipts, invoices, photocopies, and miscellany. Includes correspondence with the Budd Company, and the Philadelphia architectural firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, regarding art work for Budd-built railroad passenger cars.

New York Central brochure, "Historic Murals in the Cars of the New Empire State Express"; Paul P. Cret, "Interior Streamlining," Interior Design and Decoration, December 1941 (deals with New York Central passenger cars).

1941 brochure on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train El Capitan showing the lounge car mural by Mary Louise Lawser.

Twenty four 3-1/4x4-1/4 inch color transparencies of completed murals by Mary Louise Lawser for the California Zephyr

Twelve 5x7 inch color prints of the completed murals for the California Zephyr

Six 3x5 inch color prints and one color transparency of decoration designs and one photocopy of a drawing of a passenger car interior, prepared by Mary Louise Lawser for the Seaboard Air Line

Sample swatches of wall covering and upholstery material for the California Zephyr

Three 11x14 inch black and white photographs of the interior of the El Capitan lounge car showing the mural by Mary Louise Lawser.

Color renderings for carved linoleum panels for Seaboard Air Line Budd- built coaches, 1945-1947, by Mary Louise Lawser. Twenty 15 x 20 inch panels with two 6x8 inch renderings per panel:

Budd No. 68-28238, 68-28239

A. Seminole Indian hunter;

B. Seminole Indian frog hunter

Budd No. 68-28240, 68-28241

A. Great blue heron;

B. Little blue heron

Budd No. 68-28244, 68-28245

A. Three Seminole women walking;

B. Three Seminole women, one holding a baby

Budd No. 68-28246, 68-28247

A. Two black necked stilts;

B. One black necked stilt sitting on nest

Budd No. 68-28248, 68-28249

A. Picking cotton;

B. Loading cotton

Budd No. 68-28252, 68-28253

A. Night booming cereus;

B. Water lilies with dragonfly

Budd No. 68-28254, 68-28255

A. Flamingo and baby bird;

B. Two flamingos on nests

Budd No. 68-28256, 68-28257

A. Two Seminole women grating sweet potatoes;

B. Seminole woman and girl sorting cloth

Budd No. 68-28258, 68-28259

A. Seminole woman sewing;

B. Seminole woman washing clothes

Budd No. 68-28262, 68-28263

A. Florida beach scene;

B. Florida beach scene

Budd No. 68-28268, 68-28269

A. Confederate officer and girl dancing;

B. Confederate soldier and girl dancing

Budd No. 68-28270, 68-28271

A. French angelfish;

B. Spade fish

Budd No. 68-28272, 68-28273

A. Horse racing scene;

B. Horse racing scene

Budd No. 68-28274, 68-28275

A. Sponge diver with hook;

B. Sponge diver with net

Budd No. 68-28280, 68-28281

A. Two pelicans flying;

B. One pelican standing

Budd No. 68-28282, 68-28283

A. Three tropical fish;

B. Four shark remora

Budd No. 68-28286, 68-28287

A. Black and yellow rock beauties, sea urchin;

B. Angel fish and coral growth

Budd No. 68-28288, 68-28289

A. Seminole boy riding on tortoise;

B. Seminole boy leading pet alligator

Budd No. 68-28290, 68-28291

A. Seminole boy dancing with crocodile;

B. Seminole boy holding rooster

Budd No. 68-28296, 68-28297

A. Male pelican;

B. Female pelican with a young bird

No numbers

A. Passion flower;

B. Hibiscus

Two unfinished designs

Untitled perspective study, drawing

Three 15x20 inch panels containing the preliminary color renderings for murals for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Denver Zephyr coffee shop car, 1956:

Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson Nos. 680-2248, 680-2249, "Chuck Wagon"

Two 8x10 photographs of the completed murals

Twenty 15x20 inch panels containing preliminary color renderings for murals for the California Zephyr Budd-built Vista Dome coaches, 1947-1948:

Budd No. 517-862

"Gold panning in California"

Budd No. 517-862

"Gold panning in California" (Photocopy)

Budd No. 517-864

"The Mormons settle the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847"

Budd No. 517-865

"Mission Santa Clara"

Budd No. 517-865

"Mission Santa Clara" (Photocopy)

Budd No. 517-866

"Mission Dolores"

Budd No. 517-866

"Mission Dolores" (Photocopy)

Budd No. 517-867

"Mormon emigration"

Budd No. 517-867

"Mormon emigration" (Photocopy with revisions)

Budd No. 517-889

"Forty-niners mining on the Stanislaus [Feather] River"

Budd No. 517-890

"Pony Express"

Budd No. 517-891

"Building a sod house on the prairie"

Budd No. 517-891

"Building a sod house on the prairie" (Revised sketch)

Budd No. 517-898

"Breaking sod on the prairie"

Budd No. 517-899

"Fur traders rendezvous"

Budd No. 517-900

"Fort Laramie"

Budd No. 517-913

"Sutter's Fort" (with revised sketch)

Budd No. 517-914

"Covered wagon train following the Platte River on the California Trail"

Budd No. 517-915

"Central City"

Budd No. 517-916

"Pike's Peak or bust"

Budd No. 517-917

"Denver and Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge"

Budd No. 517-918

"Zebulon Pike's first view of peak later to carry his name"