Call Number:

C0625

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 7 boxes
• 5.13 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edwin H. Denby Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1823-1942 (inclusive) and 1900-1939 (bulk)

Creator:

Mt. Vernon Public Library (Westchester County, N.Y.) and Denby, Edwin H. (1873 or 1874-1957)

Form:

Architectural drawings., Copybooks., Correspondence, Diaries., Genealogies., Rubbings (visual works) -- United States, Sketchbooks., and Architects -- New York (N.Y.)

Abstract:

Consists of drawings, correspondence, photographs, documents, a genealogy, financial papers, and printed matter of Edwin H. Denby.

Edwin H. Denby was an architect and member of the architectural firm, Denby and Nute. Denby's father, Edwin Robinson Denby, was a physician who served as a medical officer on various ships during the American Civil War.

The collection consists of drawings, correspondence, photographs, documents, a genealogy, financial papers, and printed matter of Denby. The collection contains material for his unpublished books Meandering Way Round the Mediterranean,, Most of Europe and the Near East, and A Treatise on Lettering by Modules; architect's record books, order books, contracts, checkbooks, mortgage receipts, an accountant's report (1938), and ledgers (1906-1923); photographs of buildings designed by the architectural firm of Denby and Nute; architectural drawings for the Yonkers (N.Y.) Public Library and the Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) Public Library; blueprints, architectural renderings, a collection of drawings and rubbings of Romanesque capitals, moldings, and borders; and two notebooks describing Denby's mnemonic system based on a numerical device. There is also Denby family material including the journal (1863) of Denby's father, Edwin Robinson Denby, medical officer on the Wyoming in the Straits of Sunda, containing comments about the progress of the Civil War; a report by Dr. Denby about the sanitary conditions aboard the Lancaster (1875), with a scrapbook kept by his wife, Laura Hooper Denby, regarding Dr. Denby's death from yellow fever and the outbreak of the disease among the sailors; a traveler's diary (1870) by Mrs. Denby; and a penmanship style book (1823) by Emma Woodridge.

Unprocessed.