Mr. Mathews and his designers lay onionskin tracing paper over the maps and brainstorm lifts, slopes and base areas, sketching ideas with pencils.

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There he opened it out on the table (reserved for entertaining the Boss and celebrating special family occasions) and carefully lifted the Lindbergh portraits from the tracing paper protecting each drawing and lined them up on the tabletop.

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It is the architect as artist that dominates these shows, from the bold strokes of black crayon on yellowing tracing paper that still carry the fresh images of those prismatic glass skyscrapers, transporting us back to the utopian visions of the 1920s, to the existential serenity of the delicate pencil sketches for the Illinois Institute of Technology campus.

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In the process of helping him find his family, we engaged the NGO world at large and discovered that refugee family tracing was predominantly carried out via pen and paper and physical archives not connected to a searchable grid, and with very little technology taken into account.

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