Brussels shop windows display plenty of American goods. Our exclusive photo, just received, shows an amazing aspect of Belgian economy: shop windows loaded with American cereals, canned goods, candy, crackers etc. Belgium is the one European nation...
Group of American tourists in the midst of utter desolation in the town of Nieuport, Belgium. The Belgian frontier, the Ypres section in particular, is already fairly crowded with sightseers from the world over.
November-December 1923 issue contains articles on visits paid to Fiat by the kings of Belgium, Italy, and Spain and by President Mussolini, as well as stories on car racing.
Collection guide for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company records. The records are arranged into 3 series: Series A contains correspondence (1802-1891, bulk 1802-1815) with over 500 individuals and firms,
including customers, suppliers, sales agents...
Text from back of image: "The International Balloon race which started from Belgium a fortngiht ago was the most disastrous in history. Five aeronauts, including two American, were kiled, and another seriously injured. Two foreign and one...
Text from back of image: "While judges and contestants are still wrangling over the winning of the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, this photo, just received from Europe, shows the start of the race from Brussels, Belgium. An American...
Text from back of image: "Captain Ernest de Muyter, of Belgium (holding American flag) above, at Adams, Mass., where he landed after flight from Cleveland, Ohio, start of the 1930 Gordon Balloon Race, was adjudged unofficial second place, to War T....
Text from back of image: "Recently the king and queen of Belgium flew to England to attend the Curzon wedding, crossing the Channel in the air in rain and mist. Above they are shown landing at Farnborough."
Anthony Christy, 1756-1862, was born in Brussels, Belgium. He came to American and became captain of a ship that transported gunpowder for E. I. du Pont out of Wilmington, Delaware. A silver gelatin copy of the original portrait, said to have been...
