The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 42, October 19, 2003, Article 6

NEW ORLEANS MINT BUILDING INFO

  Dave Ginsburg adds: "If no one else has responded, and
  if he hasn't already done so, I encourage Mark Borckardt
  to contact Greg Lambousy, Director of Collections of the
  Louisiana State Museum (and author of an article on the
  New Orleans Mint building in the March 2003 Numismatist)
  for details about the New Orleans Mint building.  Mr.
  Borkhardt will discover that he needn't make his own sketch
  of the building's floor plan and that it is indeed "known what
  each room in the building was used for".

  Hal & Sharon Dunn write: "In response to Mark Borckardt?s
  request for information regarding floor plans of the branch
  mints, those for the Carson City Mint can be found in ?Mint
  Mark ?CC? The Story of the United States Mint at Carson
  City, Nevada,? by Howard Hickson.  The basement, first
  and second floors are illustrated (pp.52-56).  These plans
  are not the original working plans, and they are identified as
  ?re-created from 1868, 1878, and 1881 plans and interior
  photographs taken in 1895.?  Measurements are not provided.
  Perhaps Bob Nylan, the curator of the Nevada State Museum,
  can offer additional assistance.

  Another reader adds: "There should be a wealth of information
  in the National Archives records: NARA at www.nara.gov.
  They have a very nice search guide as well as mint material at
  four different archives locations - five if you count Washington,
  D.C."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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