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Emery (Thomas Parker) Personal Papers
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Box 1

 

Series I: Correspondence

 

Folder 1 – Correspondence

Physical Description: 1. Letters from 1977 to 1979 at various stages of the restoration project.
 

Series II: Newspaper Clippings

 

Folder 2 -- News Clippings/Publicity

Physical Description: 1. Press release on history of murals, about the restoration project, and research material.
 

Series III: Documents

 

Folder 3 -- Murals History

Physical Description: 1. Papers discussing the restoration and original mural artists. 2. Several articles on the history of the murals and the Ford Building. 3. Biography of Thomas Parker Emery; handwritten notes. 4. Cost estimates.
 

Folder 4 -- Murals -- 1979 and 1980 Cost Projections

Physical Description: 1. Scratch notes and 1979 accounting letter detailing cost projections for the mural.
 

Folder 5 -- Ford Building / City of San Diego Agreement

Physical Description: 1. Proposals and original 1980 agreement between the City of San Diego and Emery Studio (signed by Thomas Parker Emery) regarding restoration work of the mural. 2. Sketches, design plans, and general information about the Ford Building.
 

Folder 6 -- Restoration of the March of Transportation Mural

Physical Description: Emery Studio's journal report of the restoration process, including workers, hours, supplies, chronological entries, and photographs (2 copies).
 

Folder 7 -- Journal Report

Physical Description: 1. Original of Emery Studio's journal report (noted in Folder 6 above), without photographs.
 

Folder 8 -- Logs/Progress Reports

Physical Description: 1. Pages from the Progress Log notebook.
 

Series IV: Plans

 

Folder 9 -- Plans

Physical Description: 1. Notes of step-by-step plans for the restoration project.
 

Box 2

 

Series IV: Plans (continued)

 

Folder 1 -- Rotunda Entrance Portrait

Physical Description: 1. Information, sketches, and schematics regarding the Theodore Gildred Flight Rotunda.
 

Folder 2 -- Paint Restoration Notes

Physical Description: 1. Scratch notes on pigment for the mural. 2. One blueprint noting location of missing pigment.
 

Folder 3 -- Painting One Man Show

Physical Description: 1. Statement of purpose written by the artist, receipts, sketches, and cost estimates. 2. One edition of the "San Diego Aero-Space Museum" newsletter, Summer 1981.
 

Folder 4 -- John Pheiler & Associates: Mission

Physical Description: 1. Notes on light projectors, supply estimates. 2. Various sketches of horses, wagons, and missions.
 

Folder 5 -- Aerospace Museum Christmas Cards

Physical Description: 1. Sketches and estimated sizes and costs for Museum Christmas cards, 1980, including product information forms.
 

Folder 6 -- Notes

Physical Description: 1. Miscellaneous notes on the restoration project.
 

Folder 7 -- Blueprints

Physical Description: 1. Blueprints from Selje, Bond, Stewart & Romberger, Interior Architecture: July 24, 1979 "Display Decks;" August 21, 1979, "Plan of Exhibitry;" and undated, "Carrier Exhibit."
 

Folder 8 -- Mannequins

Physical Description: 1. Correspondence, and copies of sketches regarding the mannequins to be put on display in the Museum.
 

Folder 9 -- First & Redwood Painting

Physical Description: 1. Sketches for the Barnstorming Exhibit of mannequins with aircraft and cars, plus two photographs.
 

Folder 10 -- First & Redwood Mirrors

Physical Description: 1. Sketches and clothing notes. 2. One photo of Lt. Ellyson in experimental Curtiss Flying Boar, Hammondsport, NY, 1913.
 

Folder 11 -- Military Drawings and Mannequins

Physical Description: 1. Tracing paper sketches and copies of mannequin designs with aircraft, and proposal drafts for the sculpting of mannequin heads.
 

Folder 12 -- Animal and Seahorse Drawings

Physical Description: 1. Sketches of sea life and animals. 2. One portrait sketch of an unknown man.
 

Folder 13 -- Seated Figure Drawings

Physical Description: 1. Sketches for armature and design for Elason seated figure. 2. Letter regarding the delayed flight of the Curtiss A-1. 3. Two Polaroid photos of the final figure.
 

Folder 14 -- Drawings / Sketches1.

Physical Description: 1. Miscellaneous rough sketches.
 

Series V: Photographs

 

Folder 15 -- Photographs

Physical Description: 1. List describing photographs. 2. Copies of miscellaneous photographs.
 

Folder 16 – Mural Photographs – Start of Restoration (not digitized)

 

Folder 17 – Mural Photographs – Preparation, Black & White (not digitized)

 

Folder 18 – Mural Photographs – Scaffolding (not digitized)

 

Folder 19 – Mural Photographs – Before Restoration (not digitized)

 

Folder 20 – Mural Photographs – After Restoration, Panorama (not digitized)

 

Folder 21 – Mural Photographs – Explorer II (not digitized)

 

Folder 22 – Mural Photographs – Rotunda Mural (not digitized)

 

Folder 23 – Mural Photographs – Photographs of People (not digitized)

 

Box 3

 

Series V: Photographs (cont)

 

Folder 1 – Mural Restoration – Slides (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 2 – Mural Photographs – Miscellaneous (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 3 – Mural Restoration – Negatives (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 4 – Mural Transparencies (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 5 -- Mural Photographs (digitized, Emery_0013 to Emery_0144)

 

Folder 6 – Mural Restoration Photos (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 7 – Slides, Not Mural Related (unsorted, not digitized)

 

Folder 8 – Original Sketches (digitized, Emery_0001 to Emery_0012)

 

Folder 9 – Oversized Mural Sketches and Drawings (not digitized)