Historic New England

Other: Drawing of movement of plummet month by month (several months from each year missing)

File part

Date: 1891-1895

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302838

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.06

Other: Top of Washington Monument

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302839

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.07

Other: Unidentified line drawing

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302840

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.08

Photographs (19.5" x 23.5"): various views of the Washington Monument half completed [7 items]

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302841

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.09

Photographs (20" x 16"): buttresses of foundation, stone setting machine, elevator engine, strengthening foundation [6 items]

File part

Date: 1880

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302842

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.10

Photographs (14" x 16"): workers on foundation [4 items]

File part

Date: 1880

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302843

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.11

Photographs (20" x 16"): top of Washington Monument

File part

Date: 1882

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302844

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.12

Photographs (4" x 6.5"): capstone [2 items]

File part

Date: 1884

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302845

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.13

Photographs (matted, 22" x 26"): Thomas Lincoln Casey (1831-1896)

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302846

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.14

Photographs (11" x 25.5"): upper half of Washington Monument [2 items]

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302847

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.15

Sketches and prints (26.5" x 21"): print of proposed Washington Monument

File part

Date: 1846

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302848

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.16

Sketches and prints (33" x 27"): details of Washington Monument, sketch for Dougherty from (? Mills), October 24

File part

Date: 1848

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302849

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.17

Sketches and prints (16" x 12.25"): foundation, side and top view for Dougherty from Mills (notes added by ? Casey), July

File part

Date: 1848

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302850

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.18

Sketches and prints (7.5" x 11"): print of proposed Washington Monument (printed signature of Casey)

File part

Date: 1848, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302851

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.19

Sketches and prints (24" x 18.5"): proposed completion of Washington Monument, print with other structures for comparison

File part

Date: 1859

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302852

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.20

Sketches and prints (16" x 24.5"): boundary of plummet, graph notes by Casey, February

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302853

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.21

Sketches and prints (35.5" x 23.5"): elastic deflection of Washington Monument, printed graph (signed by Casey and Green), June 1

File part

Date: 1880

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302854

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.22

Sketches and prints (36.5" x 23.5"): pyramidion, printed graph/ sketch by Green (signed by Casey), January 19

File part

Date: 1884

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302855

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.23

Sketches and prints (35.5" x 23.5"): pyramidion, printed graph/ sketch by Green (signed by Casey), February 1

File part

Date: 1884

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302856

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.24

Sketches and prints (36.5" x 23.5"): pyramidion, printed graph/ sketch by Green (signed by Casey), July 21

File part

Date: 1884

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302857

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.25

Sketches and prints (print, 24" x 18"): setting of capstone

File part

Date: 1885

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302858

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.26

Sketches and prints (23" x 18"): oscillation graph; includes 1889 notes in pencil from unknown source

File part

Date: 1880-1890

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302859

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.27

Sketches and prints (23" x 18"): extreme oscillation graph

File part

Date: 1890

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302860

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.28

Sketches and prints (16" x 16"): foundation, plan of extension (signed by Casey)

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302861

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.29

Sketches and prints (22" x 28"): foundation, plan of thickness of sandy stratum (signed by Casey)

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302862

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.30

Sketches and prints (38.5" x 26.5"): foundation and shaft, print of design for strengthening (prepared by Davis with printed signature of Casey)

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302863

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.31

Sketches and prints (17.5" x 44"): foundation, soffit graph, notes in pencil, July

File part

Date: 1867

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302864

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.32

Sketches and prints (29" x 28"): buttresses, printed plan (signed by Casey)

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302865

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.33

Sketches and prints (17" x 17"): plummet, graph, February 12

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302866

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.34

Sketches and prints (20" x 16"): plummet, graph, February 15

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302867

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.35

Sketches and prints (25" x 23"): plummet graph, August 27

File part

Date: 1879

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302868

Ref. Code: MS008.38.10.36

Publication: [Devotional Book of Days]

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302520

Ref. Code: MS023.34.04.34

Publication: Second Primary Reader

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302521

Ref. Code: MS023.34.04.35

Publication: Wedding Ring

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302522

Ref. Code: MS023.34.04.36

Mortgage assigned to Frederick William Pierce (1895-1951)

File part

Date: 1938

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302567

Ref. Code: MS023.29.02

Receipt re: funeral of Antoinette Louise Pierce (1863-1937)

File part

Date: 1937

Collection: Pierce family papers

GUSN: 302568

Ref. Code: MS023.29.03

Subseries A, Papers of Robert Mills, 1848-1854, undated (#40.1-40.5), contains the papers of Robert Mills, the original architect assigned to work on the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. The papers include contracts, estimates, expenditures, reports, and machinery complications regarding mar...

Date: 1848-1854, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302621

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01

Reports [4 items]

File part

Date: 1848-1854, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302622

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01.01

Estimates [4 items]

File part

Date: 1848-1849

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302623

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01.02

Expenditures [3 items]

File part

Date: 1849-1850

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302624

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01.03

Contracts [3 items]

File part

Date: 1849

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302625

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01.04

Machinery complications [1 item]

File part

Date: 1854

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302626

Ref. Code: MS008.38.01.05

Correspondence

Subseries B, Correspondence, 1874-1889, undated (#40.6-40.9), contains correspondence received by Casey from B. Tower regarding the Marshall report on the foundation; a printed letter from architect William Wetmore Story criticizing the Monument's design; a letter from A.P. Humphreys regarding the f...

Date: 1874-1889, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302627

Ref. Code: MS008.38.02

Correspondence [6 items]

File part

Date: 1874-1878, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302628

Ref. Code: MS008.38.02.01

Correspondence, (December) [5 items]

File part

Date: 1878

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302629

Ref. Code: MS008.38.02.02

Correspondence [8 items]

File part

Date: 1880-1884

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302630

Ref. Code: MS008.38.02.03

Correspondence; includes poem about the monument [13 items]

File part

Date: 1885-1889

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302631

Ref. Code: MS008.38.02.04

Notes

Subseries C, Notes, 1878-1885, undated (#40.10-40.21, 40.26), contains letter drafts, memoranda, notes, calculations, sketches, project expenditures, work diaries, and printed articles on the foundation; soil and clay; marble and stone; obelisk; marble pyramdidion; roof; columns; buttresses; lighten...

Date: 1878-1885, undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302632

Ref. Code: MS008.38.03

Letters, drafts, and memoranda [4 items]

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302633

Ref. Code: MS008.38.03.01

Foundation: calculations, sketches, soil and clay [3 items]

File part

Date: undated

Collection: Casey family papers

GUSN: 302634

Ref. Code: MS008.38.03.02

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