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A Guide to the Dudley Dobie, Sr. Collection, 1917-1980. Descriptive Summary. The Dudley Dobie, Sr. collection spans from 1917 to 1980 and documents Dudley Dobie, Sr.’s life, career, and relationships as an antiquarian bookseller, writer, historian, and educator in Texas.
Du Pont the Designer. One need only look at the Port Royal Parlor at Winterthur to see what made Henry Francis du Pont a great designer. There is the prominence of color in the rich yellow draperies, sofas, and chairs, a vivid counterpoint to the jewel tones of the rug on which the furniture rests. There is the symmetry of the sofas, facing ...
Henry Dupont The Gold Mines of South Africa (1890) Sought after French book with 6 folding color MAPS and 6 figures in the text, and with the monographs of more than 600 companies, the Royal Chart of the British South African Company and the translation of the mining law in the Transvaal.
Abstract The Dudley Dobie, Sr. collection spans from 1917 to 1980 and documents his life, career, and relationships as an antiquarian bookseller, writer, historian, and educator in Texas. The bulk of the collection is correspondence between Dudley Dobie, Sr. and colleagues, friends, and family members - including J. Frank Dobie, Ruth Dodson ...
Arvid Knudsen, a Norwegian born antiquarian of exceptional taste, built Duck Creek at the edge of a salt marsh in Old Lyme Connecticut in 1940. The house passed from Knudsen to his friend, connoisseur and dealer, J.A. Lloyd Hyde, who was one of Henry Francis DuPont's chief advisors at Winterthur, supplying him with much of the Chinese Export ...
The collection is a binder containing memoranda and tables describing the DuPont Company's manufacture of ordnance between 1914 and 1919. The emphasis is on the Old Hickory Plant and Hopewell Works and the amount of work needed to bring them into production from greenfield sites.
Henry Algeron du Pont was a soldier, businessman and politician from New Castle County, Delaware, and a member of the famous Delaware du Pont family. Born July 30, 1838 near Greenville, Delaware, Henry attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1855, before graduating first in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point just ...
