Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6·1936–1937

B. H. Hill, II Surveys 1936–1937Bert Hodge Hill

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 37 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6 (B. H. Hill, II Surveys 1936–1937), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 88Scan 37 of 63

Alley E. of E Bldg - cont'd. from p 83

Drawing: plan with labeled blocks and dimensions, attached to page with tape at corners; labels: 1/100, jamb of W. & E street, +.07, 9, 10, +.20, +.26, +.37, +.04, +.105, +.29, 12, 13, 14, 15, +.4, = .015, = .010, 1.35-7 wide, cf. p. 91

1. Window sill leaning SW agst W. wall usd. frame socket partly filled with gyps. 2 xg 29 x 40 x 40 [neat 3. " 46 x 46 x c 30. corner c 23 x 29 cut out to ort depth .08 all rough hewing to may be modern 4 jamb 22 x 20± x 24 + 28 standing on end

Laid on wall E W.

5. corn-in face down 104 x 74 x 21± top to NW 6 " " " " 1.23 x 71 x 22± " " 5 leant up agst wall 6 agst unp. 2 m ± S. of 5. 7 1.75+ x c 51+x c 17 on edge [line of wdow opening 8 capital probably of a jamb (drawing) measured on or anta edge next S. face top.

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9. 48 x 37 x c 20 present top rough & meron wrall ad on present face Bottom in earth looks like orig exposed face. 10. 50 x 70 orig w) x c 26 Face wh t. shallow sunk panel c 42 wide, both margins cut off if any weathered & worn away 11. 50 x 44± x c 23 face leans agst #10 is weathered a worn fairly diuble 7. 1.75+ x 53 x c 18 . ? door or window frame or lintil?

13-15 Window sill originally c 1.40 long with four holes for uprights of grille reveal .185 16. Window jamb (r as you look in reveal .155 with four of 5th holes for grille remaining top now down (if it was really a S? E. jamb) 17 A r. jamb bottom up, terribly weathered though befor it fell 12-13 cm. from sill org to wh it belongs quite clearly 18 (wh we removed to NE to a partition bldy E of alley) upright jamb - some plaster preserved in its reveal 0.12 no grille holes. 14. Jamb (drawing) 1.76 long, lying on broader edge back width irregular lower part of inner reveal badly rotted - outer reveal appears straight 99+ length preserved - 6 holes for horizontal braces of grille 12 Jamb s of wh a piece top preserved lower part rotted (No jamb of window 13-15-14-12 sill

#4 has puzzling semicircular (ca) hole through inner reveal rad. ca. .07 (third of arc remaining ca. 28 l. 075, found opp. N jandle of door opening c 2.00 away

c. -.77 or -.80 to earth of course + W fund leg of coarser tampld whrt bond [illegible]

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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