Mabelle Wilhelmina Boldt Collection

Announcement
Cream colored note card announcing the new location of the Institute of Interior Design. The front has a brown tone picture of the front of the building and the inside gives the new street address. The back of the note card has the logo or seal which reads "International Institute of Interior Design 1959" on the outside circle, and "Incorporated, The Studio, District of Columbia" inside the circle. The institute's name and address are printed on the back of the accompanying envelope.
Apartment, 2225 R. St., N.W., Washington, D.C. designed by P. Sealander
Three technical drawings are stapled together with a cover sheet. The first drawing shows the "Existing floor plan", and the "Structural plan". The rooms include a kitchen, living room, dining room, bedrooms, bathrooms, patio, study, work area, and garden. The second drawing shows the electrical plan for the rooms on the "Structural plan", along with a list of electrical symbols and a lighting fixture schedule. The third drawing shows the placement of furniture in the rooms listed on the "Structural plan".
Colonial Library
Photograph of student work. Simple Colonial library with cream and white colored rug, patterned sofa infront of three windows, and small side tables and a chair next to the sofa. High chest of drawers and small desk line the flower painted walls.
National Symphony Show House
Title on cover lacks apostrophe. Thirteen drawings varying in size stapled together with a gray top and bottom sheet to form a book measuring 42 x 56. Each drawing is analyzed separately and the call numbers range from BC-0335A to BC-0335M. Exercise room. Powder room. Alcove with a chair and round table. Library. Section of a tiled bathroom. Bedroom with a raised platform area. Section of a kitchen. Narrow room with a window and a door. Living room with a fireplace. Room with two sofas and a folding screen. Living room or den. Den with a raised platform. Room with wicker rocking chairs.
Pembroke table
"5-10-46". Blueprint is folded two times, but off center, and is torn along the edges. Plan, overhead, and front views of a Pembroke table with a wooden knob, cross banding veneer, metal casters, and leaf inlay on the legs. The dimensions of the various parts of the table are given.
Repeat in every square, perfected, and other patterns
One of four separate works by students, mounted on the same piece of heavy cardboard. This watercolor has ten separate 8 x 5 cm. rectangles in 5 columns with 2 rows to each column. The rectangles are labeled: Repeated in every square, perfected; Checkerboard, triad; Two or more designs, double split-complementary; Diamond pattern, monochromatic; Vertical stripe, contrasted; Horizontal [i.e. horizontal] stripe, perfected; Diagonal stripe, analogous; Diagonal stripe and partial reverse complementary; and Spot pattern, analogous.