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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Jeff Davis
Date Made: ca. 1861
Measurement: Handbill: 10 x 6.25 in.; 25.4 x 15.875 cm
Classification: Ephemera
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zxh
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
“Üçler tepesinin yamacında ve kayalık bir alanda inşa edilmiştir. [...] Külliyenin çekirdeği Anadolu Selçuklu döneminde oluşmaya başlamış, XVI. yüzyılın başlarında Osmanlı devrinde eklenen yapılar ve ardından restorasyonlarla günümüzdeki halini almıştır. Külliyede Seyyid Battal Gazi Türbesi, cami, iki çilehâne, türbedar odası, Mihaloğulları Türbesi, Ümmühan Hatun Medresesi ve Türbesi, Kadıncık Ana, Kesikbaşlar ve Çoban Baba türbeleri, Bektaşî Dergâhı, aşevi, fırın ve medrese odaları duvarlarla çevrili açık bir avlunun güney, doğu ve kuzey yönlerinde yer almaktadır. Avluda medrese odaları önünde bir şadırvan kalıntısı, ayrıca Kadıncık Ana Türbesi’ne yakın konumda lahitten devşirilen bir çeşme mevcuttur. [...] 1826’da Yeniçeri Ocağı’nın kaldırılması sırasında ve daha sonra Millî Mücadele yıllarında Yunan işgalinde büyük ölçüde harap olan külliye 1956-1961 yılları arasında Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından restore edilmiştir.”
Kaynak: Ayşe Denknalbant, “TDV Diyanet İslâm Ansiklopedisi”, 2009, cilt 37, ss. 51-54.
Seyyid Battal Gazi Külliyesi, Eskişehir
#SALTAraştırma, Ali Saim Ülgen Arşivi
Repository: SALT Research
Rights Info: This material can be used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: McKinley "Protection And Prosperity" Portrait Glass Mug with Lid, ca. 1896
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1896
Date Made: ca. 1896
Measurement: Mug (height, with lid): 5.25 in.; 13.335 cm
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zhv
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pictionid75237052 - catalog0902310 - title- john l murphy collection uss casablanca avgacvcve-55 capt. john l. murhphy inset. - filename0902310.tif---John L. Murphy was commander of US Naval Station Hawaii and had a distinguished naval career. Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
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JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa
*** In the beginning ***
Sacca Sessola was artificially created in 1870 with the sand and soil dug from the construction of the Santa Marta commercial port. The man-made 40 acre island is the youngest of the 118 islands in the Venetian Lagoon. It was first used as a fuel dump (General Repository Petroli) and later as a hospital, farming land, UNESCO research complex and last as a resort hotel destination. Loosely translated Sacca Sessola means "scoop bag". For marketing reasons the name now is "Isola delle Rose" or "Island of Roses". It is not a name recognized by the Venetians, or on topographical maps.
The city of Venice decommissioned Sacca Sessola as a fuel storage in 1892. Conversion for use as a hospital for contagious diseases was begun. The position of Sacca Sessola was thought a perfect setting (leafy, oxygen rich with onshore sea breezes) for a respiratory diseases clinic. In 1914 the St. Mark's Hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis lung on Sacca Sessola received its first patients. The clinic, closed during the First World War, was re-opened in 1920 with the addition of new buildings, including the church and the Dopolavoro, or working men’s club for the doctors working on the island. The island's microclimate is perfect for growing vines, pines, olive trees and roses. In 1980 the clinic closed down for good. When the sanatorium was closed the area was abandoned but the Capuchin-Franciscan Friars continued to look after the olive trees. The Capuchin Franciscan Order was founded in central Italy.
In 1992 the buildings on the island were chosen for a UNESCO project (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)- to study and conserve the Venetian lagoon ecosystem. The city of Venice sold the island in 2000 to an international firm for conversion to a private tourist complex.
The former and since dissolved Italian Tourism Company (Compagnia Italiana Turismo s.p.a. - CIT) along with the French hotel company Accor were involved with the Sofitel branded Sacca Sessola Island resort project. The resort was to be called "Sofitel in Isola" and was to open in February, 2003 with 324 rooms, spa, gym, Turkish bath and a 9-hole golf test. Philippe Trapp was the opening hotel director. CIT ran into financial troubles and sold in 2007 the unfinished project for over 85 million euros. In 2014 Accor appointed Philippe Trapp to be Director of Operations HotelServices for the Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery and Grand Mercure hotels in South America.
*** J.W. Marriott Venice Resort & Spa ***
Sacca Sessola received a new start in 2011 as affiliates of Aareal Bank AG, Wiesbaden, Germany brought new investors to the island resort project. The developer entity is known as La Sessola Srl. A "società/responsabilità limitata" is similar to an American limited liability company. iIn 2011 La Sessola Srl contracted Marriott International, Inc. to manage and brand the hotel to its top tier JW Marriott. La Sessola Srl contracted with the Milan architect firm Matteo Thun & Partners and it's lead architect was Luca Colombo. Matteo Thun provided the architecture, masterplan, interior design, styling, and lighting design services.
Matteo Thun undertook a transformation of the whole island, including conversion of the main hospital building and 17 other smaller early-20th century brick buildings (mainly warehouses) into 266 hotel rooms, suites, restaurants, bars, plus the spa. The resort would cater to the high-end demographic and would be completed in April 2015. Lucca Colombo said the design and restoration concept was “shared and agreed with the City of Venice’s Cultural Heritage Office, which was essential since the island is designated as a protected historical area. A team of restoration specialists supported the architects in ensuring the project preserved the buildings’ historic value including the distinctive patina of the walls. The architect employed a “box in the box” concept - building new structures inside the old walls - as a solution to protect the historic character of the buildings and at the same time be fully compliant with current standards. The interiors are contemporary for Venice, which is historically dominated with a lot of velvet, gilt and brocade.
In February, 2016 Enrique Tasende was appointed General Manager at the JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa. Previously he was the General Manager at the Grand Cayman Marriott and prior to that the Resident Manager at Marriott Frenchman’s Reef Resort in the U.S Virgin Islands. The opening General Manager was Mario Ferraro who served from 2013 to May 2015. He moved to the CEO position for Sardegna Resorts SRL. Cristiano Cabutti has been the Director of Sales and Marketing at the JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa since 2013. Prior to joining Marriott, Cristiano was the Group Director of Sales & Marketing for San Domenico Hotels and golf resorts in Italy and England. Cristiano has a degree in tourism with a major in hotel activities from G. Magnaghi School in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy.
JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa
Isola delle Rose, Laguna di San Marco, P.O. Box 731
30133 Venezia, Italy
Compiled by Dick Johnson, May 2017
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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PictionID:43834258 - Catalog:14_008730 - Title:Atlas Details: NASA Layouts - Filename:14_008730.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Originally called the “Music Museum and Grainger Museum”, the “Grainger Museum” is a small Streamline Moderne Art Deco building, built between 1935 and 1939, a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the well known Australian composer, folklorist and pianist, Percy Grainger (1882 – 1961).
Built on one of Melbourne’s grand tree lined boulevards, Royal Parade in Parkville, the autobiographical museum was constructed in two stages between 1935 and 1939, on land provided for the purpose by the University of Melbourne. The Grainger Museum was designed by the staff architect of Melbourne University, John Stevens Gawler (1885 – 1978) through his architectural firm Gawler and Drummond. The building, built of brown clinker bricks is typical of Streamline Moderne design in Australia in the late 1930s, yet it also has undertones of the Arts and Crafts movement. It has very little detailing on the outside, with a severe arched entranceway, two windows featuring Art Deco grillework, a few decorative panels of brickwork (quite typical of John Gawler’s work) and the remaining windows consisting of glass bricks. The name of the museum appears above the main entranceway in stark Art Deco lettering made of cast iron which have been painted black. The museum is circular and features a small central courtyard accessed by two sets of French doors. The courtyard facades are detailed with decorative brickwork.
The Grainger Museum received input from Mr. Grainger in its design as well as its purpose, as well as funding provided by the composer. Mr. Grainger had contemplated establishing an autobiographical museum in the early 1920s, following the sudden suicide of his mother Rose, to whom he was very devoted. The museum contains large quantity of material from Mr. Grainger’s life, including art and furnishings from his home, musical instruments that he used, compositions, recordings, reformist clothing, published scores, field recordings, photographs, books and personal items belonging not only to Mr. Grainger, but also his mother. It also contains a curio case of whips that Mr. Grainger used in sadomasochist sexual acts which were in a trunk given to the museum with strict instructions that it was not to be opened until ten year after his death. The trunk also contained photographs of the composer after sessions of self flagellation. The museum also contains large amounts of material concerning some of his musical contemporaries, many of whom have fallen into obscurity. The Grainger Museum was officially opened in December 1938, and was staffed and maintained by Mr. Grainger throughout his life.
Sadly, the Grainger Museum suffered some initial setbacks with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, when the building was used for storage for the duration, rather than its original purpose. The museum’s designs were also problematic, as the building was prone to leaks and required extensive waterproofing. The majority of objects were not put on public display until the 1950s when Mr. Grainger visited Australia with the intention of finishing his autobiographical project; something he failed to do as he set sail for his New York home with the task still incomplete. During the 1960s the Grainger Museum was opened to the public regularly for the first time and was sometimes used for concerts and musical workshops for jazz and other avant-garde music, which would have pleased Mr. Grainger, who sadly had died some five years before this eventuality. The Grainger Museum quietly closed its doors in 2003 for extensive renovation, restoration and conservation work. It reopened seven years later 2010, and has been open selectively ever since, showcasing Mr. Grainger’s life and works in a smart, well set out and discreet fashion.
Percy Aldridge Grainger was born in Brighton, Melbourne. He showed precocious talent in music, and at the age of 13 he left Australia to further his ability by attending the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1901 he moved to London, where with the assistance of his mother, he established himself as a successful society pianist, and developed a career as a concert performer and composer. During his time in London, he also collected original folk melodies and helped revive interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th Century. Mr. Grainger left England in 1914, and moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life, residing in White Haven, a suburb of New York with his mother, Rose, who was always his greatest supporter and exponent. Mr. Grainger took up American citizenship in 1918. After his mother committed suicide in 1922, he involved himself more with educational work, and created his own experimental and unusual musical compositions. He particularly enjoyed musical experiments with fantastic music machines that he imagined, and perhaps hoped, would supersede human interpretation one day. During this time, he also made adaptations of other composers' musical works. In 1926, while returning to America from a tour, he met Ella Ström, a Swedish-born artist, whom he married before an enraptured audience at one of his concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in 1928. Mr. Grainger already had a great interest in Nordic music, but his wife’s lineage only served to drive his passion for such music even more. As he grew older he continued to give concerts. He also revised and rearranged compositions of his own, preferring this to writing new music, of which he produced little. After the Second World War, he suffered ill health which reduced his productivity and activity in his passions, and he considered his career to be a failure. He gave his final concert in 1960, less than a year before his death. The piece of music with which Percy Grainger is most generally remembered is his pretty piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune “Country Gardens”.
The architectural firm of Gawler and Drummond was a prolific, though rather undistinguished firm that designed a range of domestic, industrial, commercial and church buildings. These include the McRorie house in Camberwell in 1916, the Fitzroy department store Ackmans Ltd in 1918, the Loch Church of England in 1926, the Korumburra Church of England in 1927, the Deaf and Dumb Society's church at Jolimont in 1929 and the Nyora Church of England in 1930. The Percy Grainger Museum is perhaps Gawler and Drummond’s most distinguished work.
The Grainger Museum was open as part of the 2014 Open House Melbourne Weekend.
A repository of images relate to Banana (Musa spp) shared by members of MusaNet. The album depicts images from different African, Asian and countries from the Americas where collaborative work on Banana research is done.
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Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Trying to locate this photo at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the University Archives Photograph Collection, box 64 (UAPC-064-005-005).
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Repository: Worcester State University Archives
Photographer: Unknown
Date: c. 1978
Preferred Citation: Students c. 1978. Courtesy, Worcester State University Archives.
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, NC. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Trying to locate this photo at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the University Archives Photograph Collection, box 88 UAPC-088-016-002.
PictionID:44025083 - Catalog:14_009472 - Title:Atlas 136F Details: Prelaunch Booster 136F; Pad 11-AMR Date: 10/28/1963 - Filename:14_009472.TIF - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
Trying to locate this postcard at the University Archives? It's in the Auxiliary Service Reference Collection, box 1.
108 non-standard resistor values in two stacks of envelopes. Includes oddball values like 4.99k, 2.43k, etc. Yes, some DIY projects out there use them.
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Trying to locate this flyer at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the Office for Institutional Equity Records, box 6.
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Trying to locate this photo at the Duke University Archives? You’ll find it in the University Archives Photograph Collection, box 38.
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: The National Whig Song
Political Party: Whig
Election Year: 1840
Date Made: 1840
Measurement: Sheet Music: 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.; 33.655 x 26.035 cm
Classification: Publications
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zqn
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Notes: The British Lever Brothers company was founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever. Lever Brothers Ltd was incorporated in Australia on 21 June 1894. Soon after this, in 1897, Lever Brothers established a plant at Balmain to extract oil from copra which was shipped back to Liverpool, England. In 1900, the Balmain plant began to manufacture Sunlight soap and glycerine, and other products followed.
At its prime in 1958, the Balmain factory employed as many as 1,250 workers, many of whom were local residents. The complex contained a glycerine refinery, toilet soap plant, an oil refining and hardening works, as well as many storage tanks, extensive wharves and a small fleet of lighters and workboats.
Format: silver gelatin negative, 4" x 5" (12.1 cm x 16.5 cm) Kodak Royal Pan
Date Range: 1957
Location: Ritz Hotel, Leura
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons
Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au
Part of Local Studies Collection: SS 24-55
Provenance: Souvenir Snapshots
Links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_Brothers_Factory
www.unilever.com.au/our-company/our-history-in-australia-...
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Exhibits of scientific fact and curiosity. Research library, archives and laboratory.
Taken at The New Babbage Repository For Medical Arts and Science, Babbage Square (112, 224, 109)
PictionID:52726226 - Catalog:14_029895 - Title:Atlas 4B Details: AFMTC-Pad 13; Missile 4B-Test #1382 Date: 08/02/1958 - Filename:14_029895.tif - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:46836697 - Catalog:14_023276 - Title:Vandenberg AFB Details: Flame Bucket Being Lifted to Top of Launcher Elevator Platform Date: 10/24/1960 - Filename:14_023276.TIF - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Repository of the Virgen delos Remedios & Sto. Cristo del Perdon
Arzobispado de Pampanga
11 December 2010
Repository: University Archives, University of Miami. Collection: University of Miami Historical Photograph Collection.
Persistent URL: merrick.library.miami.edu/u?/umphotos,9
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Cleveland Miniature Democratic Rooster Seal with Case, ca. 1892
Political Party: Democratic
Election Year: 1892
Date Made: ca. 1892
Measurement: Case: 1.75 x 2.5 in.; 4.445 x 6.35 cm
Classification: Artifacts
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5zwm
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Built between 1889 and 1895, this grand and massive Chateauesque-style mansion was designed by Richard Morris Hunt for George Washington Vanderbilt II and his wife, Edith Vanderbilt, whom had decided that Asheville would be an ideal place to build a French-style self-sufficient country estate.
The house is the largest private residence in the United States, with a 178,926 square foot (16,622.8 square meter) interior floor space. The house was named for De Bilt, the place where the Vanderbilt family came from in the Netherlands, and originally sat at the center of a 125,000 acre (195 square mile or 510 square kilometer) estate, which included Mount Pisgah, much of the present Pisgah National Forest Biltmore Village, and the upscale Asheville suburbs of Biltmore Forest and Biltmore Park, much of which has been parceled off and sold to help assist with keeping the estate running, with 86,700 acres of reforested land surrounding Mount Pisgah being sold to the United States government in 1915. Prior to becoming part of the estate, the land, which straddles the French Broad River, was home to small farms, and was in very poor condition, with Frederick Law Olmsted designing the landscape of the estate, reforesting large areas and creating a park-like setting with natural and artificial landscaped areas surrounding the house.
Part of the estate included Biltmore Village, formerly a small railroad town known as Best, which was redesigned to resemble a rural French medieval village, with a fan-shaped street grid centering around the Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls, which was attended regularly by the Vanderbilt family. The village also features Norman-style cottages, various shops, a train station, a hospital, and a school for the families of workers at the estate, with many of the buildings being designed by Richard Sharp Smith, who took over as lead architect following the death of Richard Morris Hunt. Today featuring many shops, restaurants, and tourist accommodations, Biltmore Village has since been annexed by the city of Asheville. The portion of the estate bordering Biltmore Village features an iconic gatehouse, which melds the cottage-like materials of the village with the more imposing design language of the mansion inside the estate. Between the gatehouse and the mansion, a 3-mile-long (5 kilometer long) driveway known as the Approach Road winds its way through carefully cultivated landscapes, as well as crossing under Interstate 40.
The grounds around the estate include a walled garden with rusticate granite walls, a large rose garden, gardener’s cottage, and a conservatory featuring various tropical plants that would not naturally grow in the local climate. Closer to the house, the large South Terrace enclosed by a rusticated retaining wall stands immediately south of the house, with a gazebo at the southwest corner of the terrace. East of the terrace is the Italian Garden, which features a formal layout, fountains, and Italian-style sculptures, with a more natural Shrub Garden and vine-covered arbor south of the Italian Garden. In front of the house is a large lawn, which runs east to the Esplanade, a stone wall with a series of stairs and ramps that switchback to an upper lawn, with a decorative series of six stone fountains embedded into the base of the wall, and a small belvedere with a Statue of Diana at the upper end of the lawn. West of the house is a grassy knoll, which leaves the views from the house of the surrounding mountains unobstructed. Finally, below the Walled Garden, an enlarged former mill pond, which predated the estate by many decades, is now known as the Biltmore Bass Pond, and has been stocked with fish, and features a boathouse, with a dam and waterfall at the lower end of the pond along the exit road from the house.
The Biltmore House features elements from various historic French Chateaux, including the stair tower and hipped roofs of the Chateau Royal de Blois, as well as various elements from the Chateau de Chenonceau, Chateau de Chambord, also in France, and Waddesdon Manor in England. The house features a facade clad in Indiana Limestone, with lots of Gothic details, leaded glass windows, casement windows, and double-hung windows, towers with steeply pitched hipped slate roofs and decorative copper cresting, ornate wall dormers, an elevator tower at one side of the staircase, a large conservatory known as the Winter Garden next to the front entrance tower, which features an octagonal glass roof with an wooden Gothic support structure, a loggia on the west side of the house with sweeping views of the Pisgah National Forest in the distance, and a stable wing on the north end of the house, with a porte cochere tower entrance to the stable courtyard, stone chimneys, and a loggia on the south side of the house. The smooth limestone exterior of the house is contrasted by the house’s rusticated granite base, quarried on the grounds of the house, which also was utilized in the massive retaining wall around the adjacent South Terrace.
Inside, the house features luxurious finishes, including carved woodwork, intricate plaster details, electric lighting and steam heat, multiple fireplaces, a large kitchen and laundry in the basement, many guest rooms, a massive four-story chandelier in the grand staircase, a basement swimming pool, bowling alley, and gymnasium, a large grand banquet hall, bedrooms for staff, and a two-story library. The house features antiques and decorations sourced from the Vanderbilts’ many international excursions and antique dealers, as well as lots of art.
The house was opened for public tours in 1930, which has, over time, expanded in scale to feature more areas of the house and estate. The house was utilized to store 62 paintings and 17 sculptures from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC 1942, with Asheville believed to be a safe haven for them in the event that the United States was invaded by a foreign military, with the house remaining the repository for these important works until 1944, when the tides of war had turned. Biltmore Estate was designated as a National Historic Landmark 1963, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, owing to the house’s significant size, intact detailing, and connections to notable individuals. Still owned by the Cecil family, the descendants of Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, George and Edith Vanderbilt’s only child, the house is today utilized as a museum and open to tours, with the 8,000 remaining acres comprising the modern grounds of the estate having been developed with tourist amenities, including the conversion of the estate’s various barns into museums, restaurants, and a winery, as well as the construction of a luxury hotel, shops, and additional support facilities. The estate today is a major tourist attraction, seeing nearly 2 million visitors every year.
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Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum ArchiveWilliam Munger worked for the Granville Brothers on several projects, including the Gee Bees. This collection documents his life in aviation.