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Title: Michel Page, Valdoie, Haut-Rhin
Date(s): 1876
Contributor(s): Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (associated name), Page, Michel (originator)
Collection ID: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection (Accession 2003.255)
Hagley ID: AVD_2003_255_01_089
Collection: Centennial Exhibition photograph and ephemera collection

Title: Your City's Housekeeper
Date(s): 1961
Contributor(s): Franko for Mayor (Sponsor), Cinecraft, Inc. (Production company)
Description: Campaign advertisement for Frank R. Franko, mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, who ran for re-election in 1961. Two of Youngstown's top engineers, Mr. Anthony Aurilio and Mr. J. Philip Richley (who himself became mayor of Youngstown in 1978), discuss the city's municipal projects and community improvements while praising Franko for his outstanding leadership. The film ends with Mayor Franko discussing the construction of new expressways around Youngstown.
Collection ID: Cinecraft Productions films (Accession 2019.227)
Hagley ID: FILM_2019227_FC248_02
Collection: Cinecraft Productions Films

Title: Commentary on Richard Boyse Osborne, 1962
Date(s): 1962
Contributor(s): Osborne, John C. (author)
Description: The commentary fills 59 frames of microfilm. It is a typescript with corrections in longhand. It follows the organization of the journals, which cover Richard B. Osborne's life from about 1829 to 1857. The commentary is partly based on letters and other documents in possession of the family and partly on research in published genealogies, memoirs and obituaries. It corrects many of the errors of genealogy in the journals, particularly Osborne's oft-stated claim to be descended from the first...
Show moreThe commentary fills 59 frames of microfilm. It is a typescript with corrections in longhand. It follows the organization of the journals, which cover Richard B. Osborne's life from about 1829 to 1857. The commentary is partly based on letters and other documents in possession of the family and partly on research in published genealogies, memoirs and obituaries. It corrects many of the errors of genealogy in the journals, particularly Osborne's oft-stated claim to be descended from the first Duke of Leeds. It contains much additional information on members of the Osborne, Boyse and Carr families in Ireland and their rather tempestuous personal and social lives. It also contains information on Richard Boyse Osborne's education and the circumstances surrounding his emigration and wanderings in North America. There are also vignettes of some of the influential people in Osborne's life. The notes on Osborne's American railroad work are based on secondary sources and are less reliable. There is a brief summary of Osborne's professional career after 1857, the year in which the journals break off.
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Collection ID: 1640
Hagley ID: 08073194_1640_Richard_Boyse_Osborne
Collection: Hagley Library Published Collections

Title: Memorial to James Forgie
Date(s): 1958
Contributor(s): Pennsylvania Railroad (originator)
Collection ID: Pennsy magazine negatives (PRR) (Accession 2017.206)
Hagley ID: AVD_2017206_018
Collection: Pennsy magazine negatives

Title: Civil engineers
Date(s): 1918-09-08
Contributor(s): Dick, John A. (photographer), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Old Hickory Plant (depicted)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Museum collection (Accession 1968.001)
Hagley ID: 681G541_645_X475
Collection: DuPont Company Museum collection

Title: Steel in use - Lake Ponchartrain and Vicinity Hurricane Protection Project piling (New Orleans, La.)
Date(s): 1970
Contributor(s): American Iron and Steel Institute. Public Relations Department. (originator)
Collection ID: American Iron and Steel Institute photographs and audiovisual materials (Accession 1986.268)
Hagley ID: 1986268_1_0207
Collection: American Iron and Steel Institute

Title: William M. Francis with oxen at Longwood
Date(s): 1907
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_ALGS_20
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: W. M. Francis, civil engineer
Date(s): 1913
Contributor(s): Dolan, M. J. (Michael John), 1881-1920 (photographer), Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Description: Photo of William M. Francis, a civil engineer who completed several projects for Pierre S. du Pont. Includes an inscription to P. S. du Pont. Photographed by M.J. Dolan, Dolan's Studio, Waycross, Georgia.
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_ALGS_01
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: Frederick Graff with unidentified woman
Date(s): 1886
Contributor(s): Long, William (photographer), Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_D5B2_058
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: Dam construction at Longwood
Date(s): 1907
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Description: William M. Francis is seen at center. Francis, head of the William M. Francis Co. (a contracting and engineering firm in Wilmington, Delaware) spent 18 years employed as chief engineer in charge of construction at Longwood.
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_ALGS_08
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: William M. Francis
Date(s): 1921
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_3193
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: William M. Francis with oxen team at Longwood
Date(s): 1909
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_3169
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

Title: William M. Francis and 'Sail Fish'
Date(s): 1921
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954 (former owner)
Description: Handwritten on verso: 'This is one of the 'Sail Fish' which I caught. It measured 7 feet 4 inches long and took me 45 minutes to land. I claim the record for 2 Sail Fish in 2 hours. Best Wishes, W.M. Francis'
Collection ID: P.S. du Pont Longwood photograph collection (Accession 1969.002)
Hagley ID: 1969_2_3192
Collection: P.S. du Pont Longwood photographs

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...
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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