Here’s a puzzle for you: How does one best store and deliver architectural drawings ranging anywhere from 6 feet tall to 12 feet long? In these new custom boxes of course!
The wide variety of architectural drawings in the Doris Duke Collection do not always fit into standard sized map cabinets, so they either have to be wrapped around tubes or rolled up within tubes. However, using tubes does not always offer the protection needed to store these fragile drawings — nor are they always the best way to deliver them to patrons for research.
The solution? Architectural boxes that give both rigidity and stability to protect the drawings, meanwhile making it easier to deliver to the reading room.
For more information about some of the Doris Duke architectural drawings, visit the Inventory of the Duke Farms Residence finding aid.
Post contributed by Mary Samouelian, Doris Duke Collection Archivist.
Please tell me where you got these boxes! They are perfect! I work at an architectural firm and we have the same issue. Right now we use free fedex tubes but some of our drawings are bigger than that. This would solve so many problems!!!
Hi Lauren! These boxes are custom orders from Gaylord. There is a version of them here: http://www.gaylord.com/adblock.asp?abid=17792 but you should call them and talk to a sales representative if you have special needs.
Perfect! Thank you so much!