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Title: Caveat venditor : a profile of Coleman du Pont
Date(s): 1964
Contributor(s): Donaldson, John W. (John Wilcox), 1892-1979 (author)
Collection ID: D* CT275 .D938th/c 1964
Hagley ID: 08113861_caveat_venditor
Collection: Hagley Library Published Collections

Title: Beverly J. Evans publicity photograph and article
Date(s): 1981-01
Contributor(s): Aluminum Company of America (originator), Wear-Ever Aluminum, inc. (originator)
Collection ID: Marshall Johnson collection of cookware and appliance design drawings (Accession 2268)
Hagley ID: LMSS_2268_01_40_001
Collection: Marshall B. Johnson research collection of industrial design and housewares

Title: William du Pont, Jr. Biographical Sketch
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): Du Pont, William, 1896-1965 (former owner)
Description: Brief professional and personal biographical sketch of William du Pont, Jr.
Collection ID: William du Pont, Jr. papers (Accession 2317.II)
Hagley ID: 2317_2_0326
Collection: William du Pont, Jr. papers

Title: Biographical Essay on Lammot du Pont
Date(s): 2005-04
Contributor(s): Packer, Nancy (author)
Collection ID: Hagley reference file (Accession 2016.201)
Hagley ID: Biographical_Essay_on_Lammot_du_Pont
Collection: Hagley reference file

Title: Margaret Osborne du Pont
Date(s): 1962
Contributor(s): Du Pont, William, 1896-1965 (former owner), Jacobs, Helen Hull, 1908-1997 (author)
Description: Copy of a biographical article on the tennis career of Margaret Osborne du Pont which originally appeared in Gallery of Champions by Helen Jacobs.
Collection ID: William du Pont, Jr. papers (Accession 2317.II)
Hagley ID: 2317_2_0119
Collection: William du Pont, Jr. papers

Title: Thomas Lamb biography
Date(s): 1935
Contributor(s): Lamb, Thomas, 1896-1988 (former owner), P.F. Volland Company (originator)
Collection ID: Thomas Lamb papers (Accession 2181)
Hagley ID: Lamb222
Collection: Universal Design

Title: Thomas Lamb biography
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Lamb, Thomas, 1896-1988 (former owner), Catherine Bloudin Associates (originator)
Collection ID: Thomas Lamb papers (Accession 2181)
Hagley ID: Lamb232
Collection: Universal Design

Title: Oliver Evans, Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution
Date(s): 1980
Contributor(s): Ferguson, Eugene S. (author)
Collection ID: Hagley reference file (Accession 2016.201)
Hagley ID: 20100216
Collection: Hagley reference file

Title: William G. McGowan biographical sketch
Date(s): 1985-04
Contributor(s): MCI Communications Corporation (former owner)
Description: Biographical Sketch
Collection ID: MCI Communications Corporation records (Accession 2225)
Hagley ID: MS2225_000145
Collection: MCI Communications Corporation

Title: Great Oak, Great Oak : A History of the California Perfume Company (Now Avon Products, Inc.) Written by the Founder...In 1903
Date(s): 1903
Date(s): 1976
Contributor(s): McConnell, D. H. (David Hall), 1858-1937 (author), Avon Cosmetics (originator)
Collection ID: Avon Products, Inc. records, 1880-2012 (Accession 2155)
Hagley ID: CPCHist_20101119_1976
Collection: Avon Products

Title: Jacob Broom: A Biographical Sketch
Date(s): 1959
Contributor(s): Drescher, Nuala McGann (author)
Collection ID: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports (Accession 1645)
Hagley ID: MS1645_011
Collection: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation research reports

Title: Chairman's Tribute: 1997
Date(s): 1997
Contributor(s): Peterson, John P. (spk), Edwards, Leon W. (spk)
Description: Roast of 1996 National Automobile Dealers Association President John Peterson. Recorded at 1997 NADA convention. Former NADA President Leon Edwards presents a humorous biographical slideshow in tribute to NADA president John Peterson. The presentation and roast chronicles Peterson's early life, introduction to automobile dealer industry and opening dealerships, personal life and family, and time and accomplishments as NADA president. Video concludes with remarks by John Peterson.
Collection ID: National Automobile Dealers Association audiovisual materials and publications (Accession 2014.274)
Hagley ID: vid_NADA_B08_ID29
Collection: National Automobile Dealers Association

Title: Convention & Expo - Annette Sykora Profile Video
Contributor(s): Sykora, Annette (spk), National Automobile Dealers Association (spn), Ancira, Ernesto, Jr., 1944- (spk), Neugenbauer, Randy (spk), Sykora, Pat (spk), Wilson, Laura Lynn (spk), Patterson, Terri (spk), Landis, Bill (spk), Stewart, Rick (spk), Heinrech, Mark (spk)
Description: Profile of 2008 National Automobile Dealers Association chairman Annette Sykora, possibly just a candidate at the time the video was made. Video opens with Sykora discussing West Texas, childhood, and origins of her family in Texas. Sykora recounts how her grandfather, a Ford employee, moved to Texas to start a dealership which has passed down through the family. Sykora's beginnings as an autodealer and in NADA are chronicled. Excerpts of people discussing Skykora include Ernesto Ancira,...
Show moreProfile of 2008 National Automobile Dealers Association chairman Annette Sykora, possibly just a candidate at the time the video was made. Video opens with Sykora discussing West Texas, childhood, and origins of her family in Texas. Sykora recounts how her grandfather, a Ford employee, moved to Texas to start a dealership which has passed down through the family. Sykora's beginnings as an autodealer and in NADA are chronicled. Excerpts of people discussing Skykora include Ernesto Ancira, chairman of the Texas Automobile Dealer Association; Randy Neugenbaeur, United States Congressman from TX-19; Husband and business partner Pay Sykora; Mayor of Slaton Texas Laura Lynn Wilson; Director, Lubbock Economic Workforce Development Terri Patterson; Directof of Career and Technology Education at Byron Martin Advanced Technology Center Bill Landis; Advanced Technology Center Coordinator of Lubbock Rick Start; and Mark Heinrech - Lubbock County Commisioner. Each discuss accomplishments and opinions of Sykora. Sykora briefly discusses some annual goals for NADA.
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Collection ID: National Automobile Dealers Association audiovisual materials and publications (Accession 2014.274)
Hagley ID: vid_NADA_B12_ID19_03
Collection: National Automobile Dealers Association

Title: Correspondence, Xanthus Russell Smith to Sophie du Pont 1878-09-12
Date(s): 1878-09-12
Contributor(s): Smith, Xanthus, 1839-1929 (correspondent), Du Pont, Sophie Madeleine, 1810-1888 (correspondent)
Description: Correspondence regarding the death of Mary Smith. Xanthus Smith gives a long description of Mary's condition and life.
Collection ID: Winterthur Manuscripts (Accession WMSS). Group IX. Samuel Francis du Pont and Sophie Madeleine du Pont papers
Hagley ID: WMSS_9_E_32238
Collection: Samuel Francis du Pont and Sophie Madeleine du Pont papers (Winterthur)

Title: Correspondence, Xanthus Russell Smith to Sophie du Pont 1878-12-17
Date(s): 1878-12-17
Contributor(s): Smith, Xanthus, 1839-1929 (correspondent), Du Pont, Sophie Madeleine, 1810-1888 (correspondent)
Description: Correspondence regarding personal and business matters of the Smith family. Smith relates his father's work on a backdrop for the opera 'Carmen' and discusses his own work on paintings of some vessels purchased by the Emperor of Russia from a Philadelphia craftsman. Smith also discusses lithographs he has produced and his father's biography of the deceased Mary Smith.
Collection ID: Winterthur Manuscripts (Accession WMSS). Group IX. Samuel Francis du Pont and Sophie Madeleine du Pont papers
Hagley ID: WMSS_9_E_32372
Collection: Samuel Francis du Pont and Sophie Madeleine du Pont papers (Winterthur)

Title: Living Legends: Donald Regan
Date(s): 1988
Contributor(s): U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Sponsor), Regan, Donald T. (Speaker)
Description: All nine episodes of Donald T. Regan's interview for the Living Legends series. Regan discusses his education at Harvard University, serving in the Marine Corps during WWII, his time as CEO of Merrill Lynch, his experience as Treasury Secretary and Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan, and other topics. He also plugs his book, For the Record.
Collection ID: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1993.230)
Hagley ID: VID_1993230_S24_ID01
Collection: Chamber of Commerce of the United States photographs, videos, and publications

Title: Irv Koons biography and slideshow
Date(s): 1996
Contributor(s): Koons, Irvin L., 1922-2021 (associated name), Koons, Jon (author)
Collection ID: Irvin Koons photographs (Accession 1996.315)
Hagley ID: AVD_1996315_02_077
Collection: Irv Koons collections

Title: Powder Men of the Brandywine, Brandywine River Project
Date(s): 1965-05
Contributor(s): Elgin, George L. (author), Muzzle Blasts (Magazine) (issuing body), Hagley Museum and Library (associated name), Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834 (associated name)
Description: From Muzzle Blasts, v. XXVI, no. 9 (May, 1965), pp. 6-9, 28-29
Hagley ID: 20100414_brandywine_090
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Mahlon Betts, 1795-1867, Semi-centennial memoir of the Harlan & Hollingsworth Company
Date(s): 1909
Contributor(s): Gause, Harry Taylor, 1853-1925 (author)
Collection ID: VM140 .B48 1909
Hagley ID: 08076820_mahlon_betts
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: James Lick (1796-1876), pioneer and adventurer : his role in California history
Date(s): 1949
Contributor(s): Worrilow, William H., 1877-1962 (author), Newcomen Society in North America (originator)
Collection ID: PAMNS
Hagley ID: PAM_08086471
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: La grande queue de Laurent Lecointre
Date(s): 1794
Contributor(s): Méhée de La Touche, Jean-Claude-Hippolyte, 1762-1827 (author)
Hagley ID: 08049366_grande_queue
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title

Canvass White, Esquire (1790-1834): civil engineer

Date(s)

1983

Contributor(s)

Bastoni, Gerald Robert (author)

Description

Canvass White, born on September 8, 1790 at Whitestown, New York, was among the first American civil engineers. In 1811, he graduated from Fairfield Academy in Herkimer County, New York, having studied surveying, mathematics and the natural sciences.

In 1816, he joined Benjamin Wright's surveying crew on the Erie Canal and immediately demonstrated an aptitude for engineering. At Wright's request, he inspected public works projects in England during the winter of 1817-1818, interviewed British...
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Canvass White, born on September 8, 1790 at Whitestown, New York, was among the first American civil engineers. In 1811, he graduated from Fairfield Academy in Herkimer County, New York, having studied surveying, mathematics and the natural sciences.

In 1816, he joined Benjamin Wright's surveying crew on the Erie Canal and immediately demonstrated an aptitude for engineering. At Wright's request, he inspected public works projects in England during the winter of 1817-1818, interviewed British engineers, and returned with much useful technical knowledge, including information on hydraulic cements. His subsequent discovery of an American variety of natural hydraulic cement was crucial to the engineering success of the Erie. White's attempt to patent the cement failed because of the opposition of the New York canal commissioners, and an inability to protect the formula.

The scarcity of civil engineers and the great fervor for public improvements enabled White to pursue an independent career. In 1822, while still active on the Erie Canal, he served as consultant to a committee of the New York Common Council investigating the city's water supply problem. This was the first in a series of appointments that put White in touch with many of the major civil engineering projects of his time. In 1823, White became chief engineer of the Union canal Company of Pennsylvania. He resolved difficulties between the engineering department and the company's managers left by his predecessor, Laommi Baldwin, and successfully completed the canal across difficult ground.

The Union Canal included two technological first: the longest tunnel and largest dam yet constructed in the United States. During construction of the canal from 1823 to 1828, White trained several assistants who went on to have distinguished engineering careers. From 1825 until his premature death on December 18, 1834, White took advantage of the great demand for his engineering skills. He was active in public works projects in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. Perhaps the greatest of America's canal engineers, he helped to establish the science of engineering as a practitioner, innovator and teacher.
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Hagley ID

TA140_W522_B37_1983_1_f

Accession

on1122933169

Collection

Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974 : a biographical memoir
Date(s): 1979
Contributor(s): Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994 (author), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (originator)
Collection ID: Pam 98.222
Hagley ID: PAM_98222
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

Title: George Westinghouse
Date(s): 1946
Contributor(s): True Comics (originator)
Description: Educational comic book marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Westinghouse, inventor and pioneer of electrical engineering.
Collection ID: Trade catalogs and pamphlets (Pam 2017.0802)
Hagley ID: PAM_20170802
Collection: Promotional comic books gallery

Title: David Sarnoff
Date(s): 1975
Contributor(s): Radio Corporation of America (associated name), Mitchum, Robert (host)
Description: Program on David Sarnoff. Includes Sarnoff's background and hosted by actor Robert Mitchum.
Collection ID: RCA Corporation collection of television and company history photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 2464.78)
Hagley ID: VID_246478_BAVD02_ID02_02
Collection: David Sarnoff Library

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