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Series I: Architectural DrawingsThe Architectural Drawings are divided into 3 subseries: Working Drawings, Presentation and Publication Drawings, and Standard Drawings. Subseries 1: Working Drawings contain drawings created by Platt's office in the course of work on a given project. Te majority of the projects contain a full set of architectural plans. Each project was catalogued separately in the online catalog CLIO. This finding aid provides a link to each project's associated catalog record. Sheet level description can be found in these project-level records. Each sheet is individually accessioned with numbers ranging from 1974.002.00001 through .03729. Subseries 2: Presentation and Publication Drawings consist of drawings initially made in preparation for the Monograph of the Work of Charles A. Platt, published in 1913. According to a note from William Platt that accompanied the donation of the drawings in 1976, the drawings continued to be made after 1913 "since they had become of inestimable value for purposes of study and comparison as new work came along. They also provided an exercise in drafting and lettering for aspiring office boys." Dates that appear on the drawings reflect project dates, not drawing dates, and usually reflect only the year of project completion. Subseries 3: Standard Drawings consist of drawings that were originally created by Platt's office in the course of work on a given project but were later selected by Platt as standard sheets or examples of various architectural or landscape elements. Platt stored these drawings by type of element. The Standard Drawings were also part of the 1974.002 accession, and thus have complete cataloging information as well as in CLIO, but they remain physically separated. |