Walt Disney’s Formal Office March 2024
Historian and friend of mine Jim Fanning and I at Walt’s Desk (photo credit: Archivist Mike Buckhoff). Here is a photo from D23 of Mike Buckhoff, our wonderful host and tour guide at the Walt Disney Archives. He is a master of the Photo Library and knowledge of all things Walt Disney. His father worked at Disney also for many years. Walt’s formal desk with items restored exactly as he left them the day he died December 15, 1966. The model plane is a Grumman Gulfstream. Many pieces of art represented here are reproductions such as the portraits on the walls, but this is exactly how things looked according to the tedious detailed notes of Dave Smith, founder of the Walt Disney Archives and first Chief Archivist. This includes the paper clips on the desk in the box and the pencils. The photos are of Walt’s two daughters Diane and Sharon. The drawn portraits are reproductions of actual portraits of his daughters by Norman Rockwell. He also had several pairs of their baby shoes bronzed...
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