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Architectural drawing of Tryon's Palace, New Bern, North Carolina, 1950
Creator: Collins, R. E. (Richard Edward), -1910, renderer
Related Names: Hawks, John, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2375
Extent: 1 item : graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Summary: Conjectural restoration showing house as perspective projection, and bird's-eye view; rendering.
Architectural drawing of Tryon's Palace, New Bern, North Carolina, 1950
Creator: Collins, R. E. (Richard Edward), -1910, renderer
Related Names: Hawks, John, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2375, no. 1 (size not available)
Extent: 1 item : graphite
Note: Designed by John Hawks for William Tryon in 1767; burned in 1798.
Note: Date based on publication date of Waterman's The dwellings of Colonial America, 1950, in which drawing is published.
Bird's-eye perspective rendering
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2375, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite on tracing paper
Design drawing for a coat of arms for Kappa Kappa Gamma fraternity, 1928-1933
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, designer
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2888
Extent: 1 item : ink ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: This coat of arms is not the official one. The official design was prepared between 1905-1911 according to the Key, Fall 1977, p. 17.
Note: Drawing not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Note: Date based on years that Waterman worked in Williamsburg, Virginia, which was probably when this drawing was made, according to information from his niece, Fay Kaynor.
Summary: Design drawing showing coat of arms.
Coat of arms
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2888, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink on linen
Maps of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1933-1941
Creator: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2889
Extent: 2 items : diazo print ; in folder(s) 56 x 71 cm.
Note: Delineated by Elizabeth J. De Brezeni.
Note: Date based on years of Waterman's association with the National Park Service.
Summary: Maps showing sites, old roads, locations of historic houses, and original land grants over towns.
Map locating old road and historic houses
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2889, no. 1 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : diazo print on paper
Map showing original grants over present towns
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2889, no. 2 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : diazo print on paper
Architectural drawings of various houses and buildings in Virginia and Bermuda, 1919-1951
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890
Extent: 6 items : graphite and ink ; in folder(s) 56 x 71 cm. or smaller
Note: Drawings not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Note: Date based on years Waterman practiced as an architect.
Summary: Studies comparing sizes and shapes of various historic houses and buildings as plans, and ballroom mantel as elevation, section, and details; sketches.
Floor plan sketches - various building
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite on paper
Note: Sketches and notations on verso
Footprints for various buildings
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 2 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/graphite on tracing paper
Footprints for various buildings
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 3 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/graphite on paper
Floor plan for buildings
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 4 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/graphite on paper
Floor plans for buildings
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 5 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/graphite on tracing paper
Carter house ballroom mantel
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2890, no. 6 (C size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite on tracing paper
Maps showing historic sites and structures, North Carolina, 1919-1941
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891
Extent: 2 items : ink, colored pencil, felt pen, and photomechanical print; in folder(s) 89 x 123 cm.
Note: Drawings not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Note: Date based on years Waterman practiced as an architect and the publication of his The early architecture of North Carolina, 1941.
Summary: Includes maps showing historic structures and sites; topographic maps.
East side of state
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891, no. 1 (E size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/colored pencil/photomechanical print on paper
West side of state
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2891, no. 2 (E size)
Extent: 1 item : ink/colored pencil/photomechanical print/felt pen on paper
Miscellaneous sketchbooks containing travel sketches and measured drawings, 1923-1947
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: LOT 13051 (F)
Extent: 11 sketchbooks ; 30 x 24 cm. or smaller
Summary: Includes travel sketches mainly of churches in England and Spain and measured drawings of historic houses and architectural elements in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Connecticut; architectural drawings.
A survey of the early buildings in the region of the proposed Santee and Pinopolis reservoirs in South Carolina, 1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13052-1 (G)
Extent: 1 v. (57 photographic prints, 4 architectural drawings) ; 30 x 28 cm. + 56 p typescript
Note: Also includes supplementary reports, 1 folded map, and 1 folded newspaper clipping.
Note: Annotations on title-page.
Note: Another copy of the report, with varying photographs, was processed as LOT 13052-2.
Summary: Includes transcript text and illustrations documenting historic houses, outbuildings, and a church to be demolished in the construction of the Santee reservoir (now Lake Marion) and the Pinopolis reservoir (now Lake Moultrie): Black Oak Church, Hanover, North Hampton, Belvidere, Eutaw, The Rocks, Lawson Pond, Pond Bluff, Loch Dhu, Ophir, Somerset, Springfield, Bunker Hill, White Hall, Indian Field, Wampee, Cedar Spring, Pooshee, and Woodlawn.
A survey of the early buildings in the region of the proposed Santee and Pinopolis reservoirs in South Carolina, 1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13052-2 (G)
Extent: 1 v. (62 photographic prints, 4 architectural drawings) ; 30 x 28 cm. + 38 p typescript
Note: Also includes 1 folded map.
Note: Another copy of the report, with varying photographs and supplementary reports, was processed as LOT 13052-1.
Summary: Includes transcript text and illustrations documenting historic houses, outbuildings, and a church to be demolished in the construction of the Santee reservoir (now Lake Marion) and the Pinopolis reservoir (now Lake Moultrie): Black Oak Church, Hanover, North Hampton, Belvidere, Eutaw, The Rocks, Lawson Pond, Pond Bluff, Loch Dhu, Ophir, Somerset, Springfield, Bunker Hill, White Hall, Indian Field, Wampee, Cedar Spring, Pooshee, and Woodlawn.
Architectural reports, 1924-1939
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Related Names: Historic American Buildings Survey
Call No.: LOT 13053 (G)
Extent: 2 v. ; 30 x 28 cm.
Note: New Netherlands architecture section contains a pamphlet entitled "Fort Crailo, 'The home of Yankee Doodle.'"
Note: Churches and public buildings of the South section includes several pages of architectural drawings; sketches.
Note: Produced for the Historic American Buildings Survey.
Summary: Textual histories of the architecture in various American colonies and in the West Indies from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries; sketches.
Architectural drawings used by Waterman as source material, 1764-1829
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, collector
Call No.: LOT 13054 (H)
Extent: 5 prints : engraving ; 23 x 29 cm. or smaller
Summary: Includes exterior views of Dulwich College, London, dated 1829; Rye House, Hertfordshire, dated 1784; Nutley Abbey, Buckinghamshire; Gothurst, Buckinghamshire; and Southill, Bedfordshire, dated 1782.
Sketchbook of details of buildings located primarily in Virginia but also in Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, West Virginia, and England, 1927-1940
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: LOT 13055 (H)
Extent: 1 sketchbook (158 architectural drawings) : graphite, ink, and colored pencil ; 28 x 23 cm.
Extent: 5 architectural drawings : graphite and stat ; in folders 28 x 23 cm.
Note: Two page numbering schemes are used within the sketchbook. Page numbers without a suffix indicate normal pagination (i.e., the first page in the book is page 1). Page numbers suffixed with a "B" indicate pagination from the end of the sketchbook. (i.e., the last page in the book is page 1B).
Note: For the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture, Library of Congress, Division of Fine Arts.
Note: Title on cover: "Sketch book--details of buildings, bound 1937."
Note: Sketches bound in 1937; rebound at Dumbarton Oaks in 1939.
Note: Includes cutout portrait photograph of T.T. Waterman, Sr.
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