Box 5

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Contains general count of specific types of objects in each room.

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Contains lists and notes re items moved to vault during construction. Items include paintings, bronzes, Boucher panels, porcelains, and decorative items. Includes lists of items, as well as room by room inventory of items moved.

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Jonas, Edouard

Jurist, Mrs. Louis

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Knight, J. M. & Son, Engineers & Contractors

Knoedler, M. & Co. - Re cleaning and preservation of The Frick Collection paintings.

Kraft Tile Company

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Contains four-page list of lighting fixtures by Caldwell & Co., with estimates of cost and 28 small, detailed pencil drawings of each type of fixture. Original transferred to Henry Clay Frick Furnishings Files; folder contains photocopy of document.

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Lake, Herbert Hallen - Contains March 19, 1933 letter from Charles Hall Rosefield and Herbert Hallen Lake, who worked on original construction of No. 10 East 71st Street, built for Dr. J. B. Clemens by C. P. H. Gilbert.

Lee, Albert R. & Co. Inc.

Lewis, Llywellyn W. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s "consultant builder, architect and owner's representative."

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Company considered for art storage before decision to store art works in vault during construction.

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Contains short typed and handwritten memos of points to discuss, questions raised, to do lists, and telephone and conversation messages to Clapp. Often contain daily details of renovation.

Scope and Contents note Among the topics covered are the construction of architectural models, which paintings to hang in the Oval Room, placement of the Boucher Room, the organ, construction of a vault, salvage materials, the size of the Library, air conditioning, and the organ. Also mentioned is the bust of Lorenzo, Houdon's Cagliostro, condition of the Corot paintings, Vermeer's Artist in His Studio, and the...