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Plans of Robertson's Mill, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

Working drawings/plans rolled up and still in original Air mail packaging of Robertson’s Mill, Colonial Williamsburg. There are 51 drawings that are mentioned on sheet LP of the 1st roll of which only 41 are in the collection, the following are missing:
• 102
• 228
• 229
• E1
• E2
• E3
• E4
• E5
• E6
• E7

There are 3 copies of drawings in the 1st roll that appear in the second roll, these are drawings 1, 110, and 201, and these are highlighted in the lists below.

There are two drawings in the 2nd roll that appear to belong to other collections; S1 is dated August 15th 1956 which differs from the other drawings and S2 is dated October 17th 1977, which is 21 years after the rest. Again these are highlighted in the bellow lists.

The following is the summary of each drawing contained in the two rolls:

1st Roll:
• LP – Layout Plan, List of Drawings – March 1st 1956
• L1 – Landscape Layout and Details – March 1st 1956
• 1 - Elevations – March 1st 1956
• 101 – Foundations, Cross Trees, QTR. Bars, Great Post and Exterior Stairs – March 1st 1956
• 103 – Roof Framing, Windshaft Sprattle Beam Details – March 1st 1956
• 104 – Cross Section of Buck – March 1st 1956
• 105 – Buck Elevations – March 1st 1956
• 106 – Brake Band and Brake Lever – March 1st 1956
• 107 – Elevations of Door and Hatches and Hardware Schedule – March 1st 1956
• 108 – Interior Ladder – March 1st 1956
• 109 – Stone Casing – March 1st 1956
• 110 – Grain Hopper and Shoe – March 1st 1956
• 111 – Sifting Machine and Bray Lever System – March 1st 1956
• 226 – Poll and Sail Details – March 1st 1956
• 227 – Poll and Sail Details – March 1st 1956
• 112 – Poll and Sails – March 1st 1956
• 201 – Great Post – March 1st 1956
• 202 – Great Post Strap and Chocks – March 1st 1956
• 203 – Great Post Pintle, QTR Bar Straps and Bridge Tree Pivot Block Brace – March 1st 1956
• 204 - Bridge Tree Pivot Block Brace and Straps, Exterior Stair Hinge – March 1st 1956
• 205 – Great Post Pintle – March 1st 1956
• 206 – Exterior Stair and Railing Details – March 1st 1956
• 207 – Tail Wheel, Tiller, Tiller Pivot Strap – March 1st 1956
• 208 – Tail Wheel and Tail Pole Details – March 1st 1956
• 209 – Cornice, Corner Board and Rakeboard – March 1st 1956
• 210 – Bracket Details – March 1st 1956
• 211 – Neck Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 212 – Tail Beam Bearing and Windshaft Gudgeon – March 1st 1956
• 213 – Brake Wheel – March 1st 1956
• 214 – Brake Wheel Details, Windshaft and Sprattle Beam – March 1st 1956
• 215 – Brake Wheel Details, Wallower and Sprattle Beam – March 1st 1956
• 216 – Quart, Stone Spindle and Bridge Tree Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 217 – Wallower Details – March 1st 1956
• 218 – Stone Details, Rynd and Bed Stone Bearing – March 1st 1956
• 219 – Brake Band and Brake Lever Details – March 1st 1956
• 220 – Brake Lever Pivot Block and Bolt Schedule – March 1st 1956
• 221 – Bridge Tree, Bray and Bray Lighter Shaft Details – March 1st 1956
• 222 – Sifter and Sifting Machine Details – March 1st 1956
• 223 – Grain Hopper and Shoe Details – March 1st 1956
• 224 – Door D-101, Hatches H-101, H-102, H-103, H-201, H-202, H-203 Details – March 1st 1956
• 225 – Trap Doors TD-101 and TD-201, Hatches H-103, H-202, H-203 Details – March 1st 1956

2nd Roll:
• S2 – Steel Rigging to Lift Buck off Great Post – October 17th 1977
• 201 – Great Post – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)
• 110 – Grain Hopper and Shoe – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)
• S1 – Hurricane Bracing – August 15th 1956
• 1 - Elevations – March 1st 1956 (A copy from the 1st roll.)

Sass, Jon A (b. 1942), miller and millwright

Various ephemera

Miscellaneous ephemera listed as:
Copy of a painting from a calendar called “Downland Farm” by C. Water Smith, C 1514, "From Miss Ingram".
Page from "Naturopa 36" (1980) showing Kinderdijk windmills, Netherlands.
Cecil Sale calendar from November to January 1970 depicting Aythorpe Roding post mill.
Magazine article on Heckington Mill by Sheila Robinson.
Calendar page of a Houghton Mill, Huntingdonshire, March 1974.
Calendar page depicting a watercolour of a post mill by Sylvester Stannard, published by C W Faulkner & Co Ltd, London.
Page from "The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Second Series, Part 1" (1920) reproducing Thomas Girtin's "A Mill in Essex" (1799).
Page from from "She" magazine (between 1955-1964) showing Rolvenden post mill.
Calendar page from 1947 depicting a watercolour of a smock mill. An inscription on the reverse reads: "Wishing Harry & Doris a Happy Christmas and Peaceful New Year. From Mary & Roni 1947-48".
Picture of T. B. Latchmore's photograph of Bassingbourn mills, Cambridgeshire.

Meyer, Henry Smith "Harry" (1900-1982), carpenter and mill photographer

Files on mills in Belgium and The Netherlands

A series of files, created by an unknown person and given to Stephen Buckland, on mills in the different Belgian Provinces and The Netherlands. Each folder contains information leaflets, and in most cases photographs of mills.

Unknown creator

Slides of Sussex windmills

Slides of New Mill, Cross in Hand, Oldland Mill, Keymer, King's Mill, Shipley, and a wind generator in a garden between Argos Hill and Cross in Hand.
Note in the box: "Sx, 1979 Cross-in-Hand Oldland Mill, Keymer Wind generator between Argos Hill & Cross-in-Hand Shipley".

Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher

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