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Percy Erskine Nobbs Fonds With digital objects
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Sketchbook 1, 1899

This file contains a bound sketchbook containing drawings, colour sketches and notes of architectural ornaments, chairs and other furniture, doors, windows, and building exteriors. Includes photos of furniture and architectural decor clipped from catalogues, and some drawings on loose tracing paper tucked into the volume.

Nobbs, Percy E. (Percy Erskine), 1875-1964

Sketchbook 2, 1899

This file consists of a bound sketchbook containing notes, drawings and some colour sketches of churches, residences, architectural ornaments, tile and textile ornaments, and some birds and sculptures. Includes some photos pasted in, and some drawings on loose tracing paper tucked into the volume.

Nobbs, Percy E. (Percy Erskine), 1875-1964

Student Drawings of P.E. Nobbs

File consists of 35 measured drawings: --Unidentified details of contours (1) --Elevations, sections and plans of St. Athernase, Leuchars, Fife (5) --Tomb of children of Charles VIII, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh (1) --Cornice of stone chimneypiece, Petinelli Palace, Padua (1) --Vaulting over entrance to Quadrangle, University of Edinburgh (1) --Elevations, section, plan and details of Whitekirk, Haddingtonshire and St. Mary, Haddington (3) --Elevations, section, plan and details of Register House, Edinburgh (2) --Elevations, sections and plan at south aisle, Holyrood Chapel (4) --Doorway of Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral (2) --Stalls in Southwold Church, Suffolk (3) --Unidentified elevation and plans of clock tower (1) --Cast of sarcophagus of Carlo Marsuppini, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh (1) --Foliage, Beverley [Minster] (1) --Details of Wayside Chapel, Houghton Le Dale, Norfolk (3) --Unidentified foliated freize, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh (1) --French 13th-century foliated capitals (4) --Soffit of window in hall, Hengrave Hall (1)

House for P.E. Nobbs

Urban house (detached, basement, 3 floors, attic, 8 bedrooms, sleeping gallery); brick; wall bearing.
3 development drawings; dormers, stairs, flue
10 working drawings: floor plans, roof plan, elevations, section
47 detail drawings: doors, archway, windows, rafters, dormers, stairs, study, louvre, ground floor, larder, wrought iron railings, fittings, lighting, plaster cornice, ash bin, slab reinforcement, plumbing diagram, fireplace, sleeping gallery, eaves, pier, vase, roof
1 record drawing: ground plan
27 photographs: 1 plan; 11 finished exteriors; 15 finished interiors

Macdonald Engineering Building

File consists of architectural drawings and blueprints for university building. Includes 8 measured drawings (floor plans, numbering of rooms), 7 presentation drawings (proposed elevation, front and back elevations, north and south elevations, sections), 3 development drawings (drafting room, floor plan, treads and nosing section), 16 working drawings (floor plans, roof plan, elevations, sections), 76 detail drawings (room plans and elevations, sections, doors, structure, stairs, lettering, gallery, gables, corridor, entrance hall, windows, porch, ducts, sashes, theatre plan and sections, seats, staircase, marble work [including partitions and wall linings], fittings, lintels, lighting, terracotta [including porch, vestibule, door, hall, locker room], stonework [including windows, elevations, entrance, gables, panels]), 1 consultant drawing (roof diagram), 1 record drawing (elevation). Also includes 32 photographs (3 models, 2 construction, 6 finished exteriors, 18 finished interiors, 3 others).

Student Drawings (Ironwork) of P.E. Nobbs

File consists primarily of drawings of ironwork, including 22 measured drawings: --Wrought iron gate, Chelmsford (1) --Wrought iron railings and gate, Greeston Stair, Lincoln (2) --Donibristle, Fife (1) --Baroque gate, Rennes, Brittany (2) --Wrought iron hinge by Bodley, St. Pauls Burton (1) --Unidentified wrought iron detail (1) --Staircase panel, Caroline Park, Granton (2) --Wrought iron, Terrington, St. Clements, Norfolk (2) --Wrought iron choir stalls, St. Paul's (2) --Ely (1) --Wrought iron screen and hinges, Lincoln Cathedral (3) --Early 13th century wrought iron hinge, Market Deeping (1) --Wrought iron gates, Ruspoli Palace, Siena (1) --Sempringham (1) --Private entrance to churchyard, Belton House, Lines (1). Also includes 2 development drawings: --Proposed new gates, St. Annes Soho (1) --Fireplace Dog (1).

Album, book 2

Album of black and white photographs depicts interior and exteriors of the Strathearn School, Edward VII School, Peace Centennial School, L. & L. & G. Building, the new Birks Building, the Regina War Memorial Museum, one photograph of the Bancroft School, as well many photographs of University of Alberta buildings. Photos are accompanied by handwritten labels and stickers indicating op. numbers.

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