I didn't have my HTML turned off on the last couple of messages to the List, so I am resending just in case the other emails didn't make it through the list server. Here are some of the records available through NARA regarding the Washington Monument. I am in hopes that we may be able to find some records regarding the actual workers. Hope that this is a help ~ Marianne NARA Records: > 42.6.1 Records of the Officer in Charge of Construction > Textual Records: Annual reports, 1878-87. Monthly reports, 1871- 88. Letters > sent, 1871-88, with index. Letters received, 1875-88, with indexes and > registers. Timebooks, 1871-88. Schedules of granite blocks and granite > cutting and of other materials, 1871- 88. Miscellaneous fiscal and > accounting records, 1873-88. > Subject Access Terms: Alfred B. Mullett; Thomas Lincoln Casey. > 42.13 RECORDS RELATING TO THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT > 1833-1951 > 27 lin. ft. > 42.13.1 Records of the Washington National Monument Society > History: Organized, September 26, 1833, as a private association to build a > monument to the memory of George Washington. Construction began, July 2, > 1848, pursuant to a resolution of January 31, 1848 (9 Stat. 333), > authorizing the Society to erect the Washington Monument on public grounds. > After responsibility for construction was transferred to the Joint > Commission for the Completion of the Washington Monument (SEE 42.13.2), > 1876, the Society continued to solicit contributions and advised the Joint > Commission. > Textual Records: Proceedings, 1833-59, 1865-66, 1868, 1876-1934. Proceedings > of the Board of Managers, 1834-58. Organizational and administrative > records, 1833-87. Letters sent, 1858-83. Letters received, 1835-89, 1919-25. > Letters received and other records concerning control of the Society and the > monument by the "Know Nothing" Board of Managers, 1855-58. Letters received > relating to membership, 1833-94, 1920-26, 1934-41; and employees, 1853-68. > Correspondence, 1923-44. Records relating to design and construction, > 1836-90; to repair and refacing, 1934-46; to the "Pope's Stone" and other > donated memorial stones, 1849-1951; to contributions, gifts, and benefit > performances, 1835-87; and to Congressional relations, 1836, 1860-80. > Records of general and special agents Elisha Whittlesey, 1847-55; J.C. Ives, > 1859-64; and Frederick L. Harvey, Sr., 1874-76. Records of the Building > Committee, 1848-53; the Committee of Arrangements, 1848; and the Executive > Committee for the centennial of the laying of the cornerstone, 1948. > Correspondence and accounting records of the treasurer, 1834-92. > Architectural and Engineering Plans (34 items): Washington Monument, > 1836-ca. 1885. SEE ALSO 42.14. > Photographic Prints (69 images): Society officers, ca. 1860-1900 (M, 7 > images). The monument and its construction, 1879-1934, including some views > of Washington, DC, n.d. (M, 62 images). SEE ALSO 42.15. > Subject Access Terms: American Party; Great Falls Manufacturing Co.; Ladies > Washington National Monument Society; Robert Mills. > 42.13.2 Records of the Joint Commission for the Completion of the > Washington Monument > History: Established by an act of August 2, 1876 (19 Stat. 123), to direct > and supervise completion of construction of the Washington Monument. > Abolished by an act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat. 553). > Textual Records: Proceedings, 1876-88. Letters sent, 1876-88. Letters > received, 1876-88, with a register. Building committee proceedings, 1879-84; > and letters sent and received, 1879-88. Letters sent and received, schedules > of marble and granite cutters and rubbers, and other records of the Engineer > in Charge, 1876-92. > Subject Access Terms: Thomas Lincoln Casey. > 42.13.3 Records of the Joint Commission on the Dedication of the > Monument > History: Established by Joint Resolution 25 of May 13, 1884 (23 Stat. 272), > to make arrangements for the dedication on February 21, 1885. > Textual Records: Proceedings, 1884-85. Report of the commission, including > texts of speeches and prayers given, 1885. > 42.13.4 Records of the Engineer in Charge of the Monument > History: An act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat. 553), charged the Secretary of > War with the custody, care, and protection of the monument. The Officer in > Charge of Public Buildings and Grounds represented the Chief of Engineers as > Engineer in Charge of the Monument. These responsibilities passed to the > Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital and, > in 1933, to the National Park Service. > Textual Records: Diagrams of the movement of the plummet and related letters > received, 1893-98. Readings of the plumb line, 1898-1921. Records of the > custodian of the monument, including rough schedules for marble and granite > and other records of construction, 1879-89; monthly reports of operations, > 1888-1907; monthly schedules of visitors to the monument, 1888-1925; and > records concerning the monument's maintenance, 1884-1922. > 42.14 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS (GENERAL) > 1797-1927 > 177 items > Maps: Maps and building plans ("Numbered Map File"), 1797-1927, including > those showing the City of Washington, Hamburgh, Carrollsburgh, and County of > Washington outside the original City limits; Water Street, by Nicholas King, > 1797; part of the City, by James Dermott, 1799; canal improvements near the > Capitol and near the Washington Monument and White House; leasing of > wharves; public reservations under control of the Office of Public Buildings > and Public Grounds, 1894; Rock Creek Park; and the Treasury Building, old > Department of State building, Old Jail, and Alexandria, DC (subsequently > VA), courthouse. > SEE Maps UNDER 42.2.2, 42.2.3, 42.3.3, and 42.3.5. SEE Architectural and > Engineering Plans UNDER 42.2.5, 42.3.3, 42.3.4, 42.6.2, 42.12, and 42.13.1. > 42.15 STILL PICTURES (GENERAL) > SEE Photographic Prints UNDER 42.6.2, 42.7, and 42.13.1. SEE Photographic > Prints and Negatives UNDER 42.12. SEE Photographic Prints and Glass Plate > Negatives UNDER 42.3.3 and 42.3.4. SEE Glass Plate Negatives UNDER 42.3.1. > SEE Lantern Slides UNDER 42.3.4.