Correspondence, Receipts, Statements, etc.,
of the
Rives Family , chiefly of
William Cabell Rives, Sr. and his
wife
Judith Page Walker Rives , and their
children
Ella Rives ,
Amelie Rives ,
Francis Rives ,
William Cabell Rives, Jr. , and
Alfred Landon Rives , covering the
years 1800-1855.
Box II
Correspondence, Receipts, Statements, etc.,
of the
Rives Family , including some material
shedding light on
William Cabell Rives, Sr. 's opinion
of secession and the Civil War, covering the years
1856-1874.
Box III
Correspondence, Receipts, Statements, etc.,
of the
Rives Family , including will and
settlement of the estate of
William Cabell Rives, Sr. (1868),
covering the years 1868-1874.
Box IV
Correspondence, Receipts, Statements, etc.,
of the
Rives Family , including the will and
settlement of the estate of
Judith Page Walker Rives (~ 1882),
autobiography of
Judith Page Walker Rives , papers
re:
Grace Church (1882- n.d.), covering
the years 1875-1889.
Box V
Business and Personal Correspondence of the
Rives Family , chiefly the
correspondence of
Alfred Landon Rives as General
Superintendent of the
Panama Railroad Company , mainly
with
E. L. Oppenheim , and correspondence
between
Alfred Landon Rives and
T. R. Allen regarding investments in
Washington state. His interests
Railroad Stocks and Mining Stocks. Material pertaining
to the economy of
Peru . Last Will and Testament of
Ella Rives . Last Will and Testament
of
Sadie C. Rives (wife of
Alfred Landon Rives ). Covering
years 1887-1890.
Box VI
Business and Personal Correspondence of the
Rives Family , chiefly
Alfred Landon Rives and his
connections with
Panama Railroad Company , the
Panama Canal , the
Veracruz to Pacific Railroad , the
Maryland Trust Company , and
T. R. Allen in
Washington state, covering the years
1891-1898.
Box VII
Correspondence, invitations, calling cards,
and other undated material, chiefly of the
Rives women , particularly during
their various stays in
Paris .
Box VIII, parts A and
B
The original manuscript of the
Life and Times of
Madison , by
William Cabell Rives, Sr. , a
3-Volume work published by
Little, Brown and Company in 1859
and 1868, ca. 1000 pages.
Box IX
Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, chiefly
of
Judith Page Walker Rives (Mrs.
William Cabell Rives Sr.), including
poems, short stories, essays, and translations from
French.
Box X
An empty scrapbook.
William Cabell Rives Ledger
1820-1827. 4
Alfred Landon
Rives notebooks.
Box XI
Architecture and Engineering Texts and Notes
of
Alfred Landon Rives , mainly in
French.
Box XII
Architectural notes, textbooks, and drawings
of
Alfred Landon Rives , mainly in
French.
Box XIII
Architecture and Engineering Blueprints of
Alfred Landon Rives .
Box XV
Plans and Achievements of the
Interoceanic Canal at Panama ,
mainly in French, and
Alfred Landon Rives 's ideas on
them.
Oversize Architectural Drawings of
Alfred Landon Rives
Note: This is a preliminary listing of Rives'
drawings in Oversize Tray 40 (folders I -III) and
Oversize Tray 41 (folders IV -VIII). For the most part,
these are tracings of drawings he made while in Europe
in the 1850's as the best examples of bridges employing
the latest in construction design and technology, These
drawings were repaired by the Barrow Laboratory in
Richmond in November 1975 and July 1982. Drawings of
buildings in Oversize Tray 8 are not listed
Folder I:
England
Oversize Tray
40 I. a
Sandon . "Plan of the Seventy
Feet Entrance to the
Sandon [Essex County] Dock "
plan, cross section, [elevation]
Oversize Tray
40 I. b
[ ? ]. "Chemin de fer de
Liverpool a Bijry, Viaduc sur
le Canal Company's Wharf et sur Back Leeds Street,
Prolongment [Extension] de Tithe Barn Street"
elevation, plan
Oversize Tray
40 I. c
d.o. details of plans and
elevations
Oversize Tray
40 I. d
[ ? ]. "Wild's wrought iron [canal]
lock gates" interior and exterior elevations,
cross sections, plans, details
Oversize Tray
40 I. e
Liverpool . "Eighty Feet Gates
Huskisson Lock Liverpool" plan, transverse
section, cross section-, sectional
plan
Oversize Tray
40 I. f
d.o. details
Oversize Tray
40 I. g
[ ? ]. "Pont en Tole [iron plate] a
Poutres Tubulaires [tubular girders] Chemin de fer
anglais [English]" elevation, plan, cross
section
Folder II:
England -
Newcastle & Berwick
Railway
Oversize Tray
40 II. a
"High Level Bridge [between
Gateshead and
Newcastle ]" plans, pier
footings, level of carriage road, level of
railroad
d.o. "No. 4" transverse section,
sectional plan of piers, detail of piers at
roadway
Oversize Tray
40 II. g
d.o. "No. 5" details of plans and
sections of girders, cornices, parapets, wood
bearers
Oversize Tray
40 II. h
d.o. "No. 6" cross section details:
roadway and footpaths
Oversize Tray
40 II. i
d.o. "No. 7" details: footings of ribs
and tie chains
Oversize Tray
40 II. j
d.o. " No. 8" general elevation and
plan: approaches
Oversize Tray
40 II. k
d.o. "No. 9" cross section and
longitudinal section: approaches
Folder III:
England -
London & North Western
Railway ;
Great Northern
Railway
Oversize Tray
40 III. a
[
London ?]. "London & North
Western Railway Hayden Square Branch, Lattice
Bridge over Great Prescott Street and Goodman's
Yard, No. 1" north elevation, plan, cross
sections, plans of foundations
Oversize Tray
40 III. b
d.o. "No. 2" details of elevations and
sections of iron work
Oversize Tray
40 III. c
d.o. "No. 3" details of elevations and
sections of iron work
Oversize Tray
40 III. d
d.o. "No. 4" details of plan and
elevation of roadway
Oversize Tray
40 III. e
Newark . "Great Northern
Railway, Bridge over Newark Dyke, No. 1"
elevation, plan
Oversize Tray
40 III. f
d.o. "No. 2" details of elevation,
plans, and cross sections
Oversize Tray
40 III. g
d.o. " No. 3" details
Oversize Tray
40 III. h
d.o. details
Folder IV:
France
Oversize Tray
41 IV. a
Agen . "Pont-Canal d'Agen
[canal on bridge]" general elevation, general
plan, details of elevation and cross
section
Oversize Tray
41 IV. b
d.o. "Canal lateral a la
Garonne [River]" details of
elevations
Oversize Tray
41 IV. c.l
d.o. details of elevations and
sections
Oversize Tray
41 IV. c.2
d.o. elevations and details
Oversize Tray
41 IV. d
d.o. "Cintres [arches] du Pont-Canal d'
Agen " sectional elevation,
elevation w/ construction supports, details,
specifications
Oversize Tray
41 IV. e
Bercy . "Pont sur la
Seine [River]'' 3 elevations,
one w/ sectional details of pilings
Oversize Tray
41 IV. f.l
"Pont Double sur la
Seine [River]" longitudinal
section of half of one arch
Oversize Tray
41 IV. f.2
d.o. "Pont sur la
Seine [River]" elevation of
viaduct, details of elevations and plan of
arches
Oversize Tray
41 IV. g
d.o. "Pont double sur la
Seine a
Bercy " details: cross section
of roadway and railway
Oversize Tray
41 IV. h
d.o. details: cross section of railway
and roadway
Oversize Tray
41 IV. i
d.o. "Panneau superior du garde-corps
internediatiaire" detail of guard rail
Oversize Tray
41 IV. j
d.o. "Candelabre a gaz en dehors du
pont" detail of gas lamp on side of
bridge
Oversize Tray
41 IV. k
d.o. "Candelabre a gaz du pont avec son
Souhassement" detail of gas lamp with its
base
Oversize Tray
41 IV. 1
Calais . "Pont Tournant a
Double Vole sur la Cunette [channel] No. 1"
elevations, plans
Oversize Tray
41 IV. m.l
d.o. "Details des Ferrures, No. 2"
longitudinal section of iron components at
pivot
Oversize Tray
41 IV. m.2
d.o. plans and details of pivot
components
Oversize Tray
41 IV. n
d.o. " Details des Ferrures" cross
section, plan, details of iron
components
Oversize Tray
41 IV. o
Dunkirk . "Pont tournant de la
citadelle a Dunkerque, [turning] Systeme de Mr.
Raffeneau, No. 1" elevation and plan of half of
bridge
Oversize Tray
41 IV. p
d.o. "No. 2" details of turning and
structural components
Oversize Tray
41 IV. q
Lyon . "Viaduc sur la
Soane [River]" details of
elevation; plan of cornice (Signed by Rives,
1854)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. r.l
d.o. details: longitudinal section,
cross section, plan, construction supports (signed
by Rives, 1854)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. r.2
d.o. details (rough pencil
skecthes)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. s
Montlouis . "Pont de
Montlouis" elevations, plan, sections,
construction supports
Oversize Tray
41 IV. t
Nogent . [Bridge] "Traverse de
la Valle de la
Marne [River] a
Nogent " elevation,
plan
Oversize Tray
41 IV. u.l
[ ? ]. "Chemin de fer de
Paris a
Strasbourg , Tete d'aval du
Souterrain de haut-barre" [entrance of tunnel]
elevation (signed by Rives 1854 July
18)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. u.2
d.o. pencil sketches of elevation and
plan (signed by Rives 1854 July 21)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. u.3
d.o. "Station de
Hochfelden " elevation (signed
by Rives 1854 July 19)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. u.4
d.o. "Station de
Hochfelden " plans of
basement, first floor, and second floor (signed by
rives 1854 July 18)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. v.l
d.o. "Pont sur le canal de la
Marne [River, au
Rhin a
Vendenhaim " plan (signed by
Rives 1854 July 15)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. v.2
d.o. horizontal section (signed by
Rives 1854 July 14)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. v.3
d.o. "Station de
Vendenhaim " elevation and
plans (signed by Rives)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. w
d.o. " . de Paris al la frontiere
de'Allemange ... 2 elevation, plan (signed by
Rives 1854 July 13)
Oversize Tray
41 IV. x
Guetin . "Pont suspendu de
Guetin" elevation, plan, details
Oversize Tray
41 IV. y
d.o. elevation of one span, detail:
plan, section, guard rail, etc.
Rhin . "Pont Tournant sur le
chenal [channel] de
Vacken , Canal de la
Marne [River] au
Rhin , No. 1" elevation,
sectional plan, longitudinal section, component
details
Oversize Tray
41 IV. ab
d.o. sectional elevation, details of
operating components
Oversize Tray
41 IV. ac
La
Chaussee . "Chemin de fer de
la
Disdre [River], Viaduc No. 7
bis sur la
Chaussee [River?] elevation,
plan
Oversize Tray
41 IV. ad
Chaumons . ''[Railroad] Viaduc
de Chaumons au travers de la Valle de
Suiz " elevation, plan,
specifications (signed by Rives 1855 Mar
25)
Folder V:
Belgium ,
Germany ,
Switzerland
Belgium
Oversize Tray
41 V.a
"Chemin de fer Belge
Rehnan,...Viaduc de la gueele du chemin de fer
d'aise a la fronteire Belgi" elevation (half of
bridge), plan of foundations, sectional
elevation, details of elevation and
construction supports
Germany
Oversize Tray
41 V. b
Dirschau . "Chemin de fer
de
Berlin a
Konigsberg , Pont a trellis
sur la
Weichsel [River] a
Dirschau , No. 1"
elevation, plan
Oversize Tray
41 V. c
d.o. " No. 2" sectional
elevation
Oversize Tray
41 V. d
d.o. " No. 3" detail of
elevation
Oversize Tray
41 V. e
Bietigheim . "Viaduc sur la
Valle d'
Enz [River] pres de
Bietigheimen
Wurrtemburg " elevation,
sectional plan
Oversize Tray
41 V. f
d.o. sectional elevation, details of
elevation
Switzerland
Oversize Tray
41 V. g
St. Gall . "Brucken und
Thalubergange der St. Gallischen Eisenbahn,
Blatt XV, II. Brucke uber die
Sitter [River] bei St.
Gallen" elevation, plan, details,
specifications
Oversize Tray
41 V. g
Rumlang . "Brucken und
Thalubergange der Schwiezerischen Centralbahn
Linie Basel-Olten, Blatt II, III Thalubergange
bei Rumlingen" elevation, plan, details,
specifications
Oversize Tray
41 V. i
Olten . d.o. "Blatt III"
"IV Brucke uber die Aare [River] bei Olten
elevation, plan, details,
specifications
Oversize Tray
41 V. j
d.o. "Blatt IV" "Details zu Blatt
III [above]" details of iron work, elevation,
cross sections
Oversize Tray
41 V. k
d.o. "Blatt 5" "Details zu Blatt III
[above]" details of iron work, elevation and
sectional plans
Oversize Tray
41 V. 1
d.o. "Blatt IX" "X Brche ber die
Aare [River] bei
Bern " elevation, details,
and specifications
Oversize Tray
41 V. m
d.o. "Blatt X" "Details zu Blatt IX
[above]"
Oversize Tray
41 V. n
d.o. Blatt XI" "Details zu Blatt IX
[above]" cross section
Oversize Tray
41 V. o
d.o. " Blatt XII" " Details zu Blatt
IX [above]" horiszontal section
Oversize Tray
41 V. p
d.o. "Blatt XVI" "Details zu Blatt
XV" cross section
Oversize Tray
41 V. q
d.o. "Blatt XVII" "Details zu Blatt
XV"
Folder VI:
Russia
Oversize Tray
41 VI. a
Sebastopol . "Docks de
Sebastopol" plan, longitudinal section, cross
sections
Oversize Tray
41 VI. b
St. Petersburg . "Pont sur la
Neva [River] a St. Petersburg,
No. 1" elevation, plan, cross section,
details
Oversize Tray
41 VI. c
d.o. "No. 3" "Details des macconeries
[stonework]" elevation, plans
Oversize Tray
41 VI. d
d.o. elevation, plans
Oversize Tray
41 VI. e
d.o. " Details des piles" elevations,
plans, details
Oversize Tray
41 VI. f
d.o. "Pont tournant"
sectional-elevation, sectional plan
Folder VII:
United States
Oversize Tray
41 VII. a
District of Columbia .
"Foundation of Pier No. 2,
Potomac [River] Aqueduct" plan
and specifications
Oversize Tray
41 VII. b
District of Columbia . "
Potomac [River] Bridge, Pier
5, 10, 11, 12 with the arches dependent on them,
showing the progress of Construction, March 1833"
details of elevation
Oversize Tray
41 VII. c
District of Columbia . "Map
showing proposed canal from
Cabin John Bridge to the Ches
& Ohio Canal for transporting materials plan,
cross sections
Folder VIII- Unidentified
Oversize Tray
41 VIII. a
[ ? ] stone arch bridge, elevation and
plan
Oversize Tray
41 VIII. b
[ ? ]. iron arch bridge crossing "
Alexander's Island " elevation
of part of bridge, plan of foundation