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Travel sketches, 1922-1933
Creator: Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951, architect
Call No.: LOT 13062 (H)
Extent: 2 sketchbooks (176 architectural drawings) : graphite, ink, and photomechanical print ; 14 x 21 cm. or smaller
Note: Two loose items (sketches) found in Waterman's sketchbook were mounted in a protective booklet by LC Conservation Office in 1994.
Note: Photomechanical print of Mont Saint Michel mounted on inside front cover of one sketchbook.
Summary: Sketchbooks contain travel sketches and measured drawings of buildings. Includes religious architectural elements in cathedrals and churches located in Mallorca and Toledo, Spain; London (Westminster Cathedral), Cambridge (St. Mary the Less), and Liverpool, England; Smithfield, Virginia (St. Luke's). Includes architectural elements of buildings in Sussex, Bedfordshire (Houghton Hall), Canterbury (John Suittes (?) Hospital), London, and Shrewsbury, England; Segovia, Spain (El Parral); and the walls of Ceuta in North Africa. Also architectural elements of buildings in Nantucket and Salem, Massachusetts (Warren House and Witch House); Haverford, Pennsylvania (Key House); Annapolis, Maryland (Harwood House); Hampton and Richmond, Virginia (Moulton House and Ampthill). Includes renderings.

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