Notes on handling a bomb threat, memo

Correspondence re gifts, trust, capital funding, annual support funding plan

Memos

Memo to Fire Marshall re unannounced fire drills, 1984

Memo

Research, memos, budgets, minutes

Curatorial storage information, memos, photo storage information

Brochure and related materials from an appraiser

List of early collections given, purchased, loaned to the MVLA, Handwritten list of major acquisitions - objects, whether given or purchased, appraisal value

Insurance policies, correspondence, Fine Arts inventory Library Department, APC building, study materials 'Legal problems of museum administration,' list of insured objects on loan, schedule of loaned collections by lender, fine arts insurance values by structure, objects of fine art owned by and lent to MVLA, inventory of APC building

List of objects by building (1966), correspondence, "Proposal for Permanent Room Assignments with Furniture from States," (1963), "Inventory of Bedrooms,"" (1949), "Association Headquarters," (1952), "Association Headquarters Building" by room (1952), "Association Dormitory Building" (1952), "Association Headquarters Building," "Association Dormitory Building" with Valuations, "Inventories of Bedrooms," List of objects by states

"List of Furniture, gifts, pictures, plants, etc." "Miscellaneous Pictures in storeroom of Museum" "Memorandum List for the Museum Committee - Articles that have been removed from exhibition" January 1941 "Relics Removed from Exhibition" "Cupboard under sword case" ca. 1951 "List of Articles in Storage on SEcond Floor of Gardener's House," June 1938 "Inventory of Articles Removed from Mansion Attic to Utility Building (Storage), December 1942

"Curator's Storage Inventory," 1968, "Bedspreads Now Used in the Mansion," "Curator's Storage" and "Curator Office" (1965)

Handwritten notebook of 19th and early 20th century references of objects with disposition and catalog number, where appropriate; Handwritten list of donations or money from the state of New York - list of objects and gifts; "Inventory at Mount Vernon 1885-1886"; List of objects by room, 1896; "Inventory of Mansion May 1885" and supporting lists; Handwritten lists of objects; "List of 'original' objects at Mount Vernon" ca. 1920; correspondence re furnishings; Inventory 1896

List of objects in table and wall cases (including placement of objects) after 1969

"Inventory of Museum Storage" 1963, 1965, List of objects by Museum location, 1965

"Inventory of Contents" (1977)

"Store Room Inventory," 1981 Inventory of outbuildings (1981)

Handwritten notes of the Relics Committee (indication that notes were found amoung Mrs. Failing's papers, 1941); Handwritten notes (indication that notes were found among Miss Jennings' papers); 1889 handwritten notes re relics in various rooms; Typed inventory by room, 1896

Shop storage inventory lists (1964), "Unlocated" 1970 list, "Furniture in Curatorial Storage available for Loan to Lloyd House" list (undated), "Dispositions made of Articles at Mount Vernon during Storage Housecleaning (1955), "Tile Building Storage," 1964, Notes, photos

"List of Mansion Furnishings" (1958) with object list and descriptions and diagram of room arrangements.

Correspondence, vendor information

Correspondence, vendor information

Correspondence, items lists

Photos, memos, correspondence, vendor brochures, notes, post cards

Diagrams, vendor information, correspondence, photos

Vendor information, memos, correspondence

Samples, vendor materials, correspondence

Original 19th and early 20th century documents re relics on deposit

"Schedule for Loaned Collections" by lender, undated

Museum inventory and values, 1980

Exhibition area coordination committee minutes and chain maps, outdoor access meetings minutes

Report, notes

Reports, correspondence, wish list, memos, notes, budget

Meeting arrangements, supplies, house staff leave, clothing budgets, work schedules, menus

Diagrams, report to committee, list of objects, memos, vendor materials

Backstairs handrails; Minutes; Notes; Correspondence; Memos; Excerpts from articles, newspaper; photo; reports

Interpretive Sign Information request sheets, vendor information, inventory of all signs as of July 1989, budgetary information, excerpts from Writings, 20th century history on some outbuildings

Excerpts from "The American Home"

Notes on Washington inventories, copies of articles, books, "cumulative index" 1937-1941

Notes and diagrams on identifying faking of objects

Excerpts from "Journal of the Study of Architectural Historians," photos, notes, glossary of architectural terms, other related documents

Excerpts from Writings, Letter re travel arrangements, notes

Written by Meadows

Brief report, project description, letters

Letters, Booklet "Keep of the Bastille", 1887

Post cards with bed hangings depicted

"Housing and Family Life of the Mount Vernon Negro" 1954, 1962; Correspondence, excerpts; "Report for the Chairman of Outbuildings Committee," 1952

Letters, copy of article on camera obscura

Notes, articles from magazines

Letters (1970s and early 1980s), Article/paper on the museum

Photos, "Oriental Porcelains from Alexandria Collections," the Alexandria Association, 1979, handwritten notes, correspondence, news clippings, "The Sailing Ship on Chinese Porcelain - A brief survey 1700-1850", Worksheets - Chinese porcelain

Research on Christmas in the 18th century, mostly on food, table settings, designs; Memo re Christmas as Mount Vernon

Notes, excerpts, correspondence

Excerpts from Writings, Letters

List of Martha Washington purchases (based on letters, invoices, and Writings), Excerpts from letters, Writings

Notes, excerpts from "Presence of the Past - A history of the Preservation Movement in the United States before Williamsburg

Copies of inventories (with indications of which objects were taken an used by MW), shows disposition of all goods in the estate

Antiques magazine on pineapples, 1945, letters, diaries, excerpts

Notes, articles, correspondence, excerpts from "Writings"

LIst of London merchants that GW did business with, 1948

Exhibit labels, correspondence with New York and Pennsylvania historical societies, photos of original prints, invoices, vendor proposals, designs, schedules, exhibit layouts, list of objects on exhibit, chronological account of written documents as pertains to GW

Voting information for 1st election, excerpts from publications, edits to vignettes in exhibit, exhibit signs, vendor materials

Materials in the Pack Lobby cases, exhibition proposal, memo, notes, excerpts

Materials in the Pack Lobby cases, exhibition proposal, memo, notes, excerpts

Memos, attendance trends

Correspondence

Letters

Copies of articles/pictures on fence

Excerpts from books/articles

Presidential Study Group documents, excerpts, handwritten notes, meeting notes

Mary Thompson memo re foodways at Mount Vernon, and memo re table setting/menu for television shooting research.

Letters, replies from membership

Notes, excerpts from "Writings"

Letter, promotional materials, materials on Hopewell Furnace

Photos, copies of articles/books/letters

Letters, invoices

Copy of Form, Function, and Meaning in the Use of Fabric Furnishings, Copy of Potomac Squire

Newspaper article on GW bed, excerpts from Writings, handwritten notes on card re inventory of Mount Vernon, letters/memos, list of objects as of 9/1980 (by catalogue number) an discussions of authenticity

Copy of Preservation Technical Notes - Reducing Visible and Ultraviolet Light Damage to Interior Wood Finishes, articles on aprons, 1988 Mount Vernon furniture conservation priority list

Family tree, pedigree, notes, memos, correspondence

Correspondence, notes, family tree

Family tree, correspondence, copies of letters, family marriage records, notes

Excerpts from Writings, notes, memo

Excerpts from letters, Analysis of character (Washington deemed an ISTJ: Introvert, Sensor, Thinker, Judger.

Letters, invoices, report, memos, photos, schematics; Article "The Domestic Pageant: Society and the Great House in Early Virginia

Letters, invoices, report, memos, photos, schematics; Article "The Domestic Pageant: Society and the Great House in Early Virginia

Notes, 1914 invoice, old reports, references

Correspondence, photos of Quincy bells

Memos, invoices, sample trim, diagrams, photos

Photocopied articles, picture of engravings, notes

Photocopies of source documents, re: bells, photos of Moffatt Ladd House, letters

Reliance testing in Mosca's Report

Diaries/letters, documentary evidence of bells

References to, notes

Huntington: The Great Experiment, letters, list of objects for loan to Huntington Library

Handwritten notes, excerpts from articles, books, pages from Christies Auction Catalogue, worksheet accession of Eliza Custis miniature

"Comparison of Objects in the Mount Vernon Kitchen in 1799 and Today" undated

Notes on "Draft of Structure Report", an historical account of condition and work done in Mansion, including a mech-electrical assessment of the Mansion and outbuildings. Includes some mention of HVAC; list of structural engineers to make Mansion evaluation; 1985 plans for Mansion conservation/maintenance; list of conservation contractors - "Historic House Consortium Contractor Index"; RFP by MVLA for structural investigation in 1988; Internal memo re ventilation in the Mansion; news clippings, memo on 18th century method for polishing silver

Memos, notes, vendor materials, timing, light operation manual

Handwritten notes on the repair/condition history of Mount Vernon, letters describing Mount Vernon, GW and MW

Memo listing historically used Mansion room names, copies of letters, excerpts from "Writings", copies of original documents re room measurements

Copies of articles/books

Letters re publications on the Centennial Exposition of 1876, Meadows' letters, handwritten notes, articles, information on Kenmore, New Jersey room chandelier

References to Mount Vernon spinet

Materials on preservation efforts, 1858 article on Mount Vernon by Benson Lossing re preservation efforts, notes, copy of 18th century letter, letter re fundraising

Handwritten notes, copy of articles re lace, shoes, and textiles, copy of MW letter

Memos, reports, letters re new museum facility (1991 and 1992)

Letters (1952, 1967, 1968, 1982)

Excerpts from Writings, minutes from selected MVLA Council, 1990 Garden House inventory

Meadows' slave quarters panel presentation, correspondence, memos, notes, excerpts from Writings, ledgers, "Laboring Hands and the Transformation of Mount Vernon Plantation 1783-1799," "Report of Physical Research and Recommendations for Spinning House," 1952

Correspondence, memo

Photos, notes, vendor pamphlet, articles

Inventory of GW paintings and prints, Mount Vernon "wish list" 1975, vendor documents, excerpts from "Writings"

"Restoring the Mount Vernon Servants Hall," Pogue, 1998; selected reports/documents re servants hall; memos, notes

Copy "Federal Period Inventories of Salem Merchants,"

Letters, maps/diagrams

"Descriptions of George Washington - A Chronological Compilation of Contemporary Pen Portraits and Other Pertinent References," tentative seminar schedule, handwritten notes, copies of Freeman indices, excerpts from various documents, publications

Excerpts from Writings

Correspondence, notes, article, early documents on Mount Vernon silverware

Bibliography of works on slavery and the slave trade

Materials on slaves, slave diets, etc.; Worksheets on Mount Vernon slaves; "Slaves on the Mansion House Farm - 1799" (1991)

Article

Correspondence, memos, excerpts from The Complete Domestic Distiller, articles

Materials pertaining to Survey of Extant Documented Ceramics and Glass

Correspondence, photo of portrait

Memo re tomb condition (1994), article re tomb "Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine," Names of marble and stone conservators

Excerpt from "Children's Toys Throughout the Ages," Excerpt from 'Writings', Memos to Chairmen on Museum Shop.

Washington/Lafayette Yorktown Capitulation Watch material, other unowned watches, letters, photos; material re Franklin Mint 'Washington timepiece,' Tilden watch, Washington-Michaux watch, Greene watch

Memos re shutters and curtains used to control light in the Mansion, discussion of problems with HVAC discussed in report, Analysis of Temperature and Humidity Records in the Mansion, undated but probably ca. 1988, description of the New Room and its objects

Article on women in the preservation movement, notes, copy of letter, articles, lectures

Archaeological investigations in the vineyard enclosure, 1989; archaeological investigations in the blacksmith shop, 1987

Book/manuscript reviews; Memo - the holiday season at Mount Vernon

Notes for 1997 traveling exhibit, letters, memos, book reviews, answering public inquiries (late 1990s), list of recent accessions, suggested objects for special exhibit, list of upcoming major anniversaries, suggested seasonal scenarios

Newspaper clippings, vendor letters, information on GW breeches, priority list of GW/MW items that are no longer to be reproduced (!988)

Notes re Washingtons taste in decorative arts, outline for slides for interpretive training re furnishing plan 1990, copy of Interpreter's Handbook (1989), memos, interpreter materials, information sheets, Historic Trail booklet, self-guided tour, school essays, Mount Vernon teacher materials, copies of articles from Annual Reports pertaining to the out-of-doors, binder containing room-by-room information for interpreters

Notes re Washingtons taste in decorative arts, outline for slides for interpretive training re furnishing plan 1990, copy of Interpreter's Handbook (1989), memos, interpreter materials, information sheets, Historic Trail booklet, self-guided tour, school essays, Mount Vernon teacher materials, copies of articles from Annual Reports pertaining to the out-of-doors, binder containing room-by-room information for interpreters

Memos 1986-1989; Correspondence, RFPs, responses to RFPs for engineering design work

Map displaying the growth of Mount Vernon 1754-1786

Mount Vernon shooting list

Outbuildings interpretation, 1991 interpretation, handwritten notes

Copy of museum attendants' orientation for Heavy Visitation Orientation, undated and author unknown

Curator's observation of Mansion interpretation, 1982

1982 stable interpretation

Notes, copies of metal objects

NOtes, memos, designs

Note

Note

Notes, letters, lists of objects for reproductions

Memos, letters, resumes (lighting experts), Mansion electrical/lighting plans, lighting controls, lighting specifications, estimates, brochures, pamphlets, contracts, purchase order, invoices, weekly progress meeting notes

Memos, letters, resumes (lighting experts), Mansion electrical/lighting plans, lighting controls, lighting specifications, estimates, brochures, pamphlets, contracts, purchase order, invoices, weekly progress meeting notes

Memos, invoices, purchase orders, correspondence

?Carpet history, information, cost, invoices, correspondence

Memos of late 1970s, correspondence on museum, interpretation

Museum attendants' orientation

Letters, list of tools Mount Vernon would like to acquire, reports, memo produced by the M-WTCA Mount Vernon Committee.

Letters, list of tools Mount Vernon would like to acquire, reports, memo produced by the M-WTCA Mount Vernon Committee.

1985-1986 letters, bills, resume

Script of walking tour

A report "Making Colonial Paints - The Experience at Mount Vernon," articles, clippings, brochure of artist materials

Invoices, letters, brochures for pigments/paint lines, paint analysis, Goethe's theory of colors, copies of other works/articles re color and paint, paint samples, specifications for restoration painting, APT Bulletin 1983

Invoices, letters, brochures for pigments/paint lines, paint analysis, Goethe's theory of colors, copies of other works/articles re color and paint, paint samples, specifications for restoration painting, APT Bulletin 1983

Invoices, letters, brochures for pigments/paint lines, paint analysis, Goethe's theory of colors, copies of other works/articles re color and paint, paint samples, specifications for restoration painting, APT Bulletin 1983

Article written by Meadows, on Washington household, "The Epilogue: Dispersals and Retrievals" chapter for china book

Correspondence, article, news clippins, text

Correspondence, photos, news clippings, lists/notes