Print #14: Looking north from Highland Park Station. University of Pennsylvania 'Flower Observatory'. After dismantling the observatory in the early 1930s due to interference by city lights, this telescope was stores for many years until re-erected...
Advertising card for "The Sexual System and its Derangements" by Dr. E.C. Abbey of Buffalo, New York. Puzzle card with illustration showing a scene in which the reader must find animals hidden in the picture.
Image caption from article 'The Birth of a Building' from The Seagram Spotlight: A member of the architectural and designing staff is shown in the workshop preparing a special model so that the problems of window and spandrel connections can be...
Cartes de visite; Physicians; Military officers; Portrait photographs
Carte de visite from an album possibly assembled by Henry Algernon du Pont. Handwritten caption: "Dr. Hammond, U.S. Army" Hammond served at Surgeon General of the U.S. Army in 1862-63. He tried to implement numerous reforms of military medical...
On back: "Hagley. Jack Hover's mule team. Old methos of transporting powder, abolished many years ago. These wagons used to make trips from Hagley to Pittsburgh before the railroad was steablished -- DuPont Company."
In P.S. du Pont's hand on back of image: "Chestnut tree at Longwood taken by government inspector fall 1912. Trees had been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture of orchard[?] strength about every ten days since March 1912. Apparently no chestnut blight...
Handwritten on front: "Merry Christmas and many thanks again for letting us stay in your apartment at the Cardiou? house. (unintelligible) Sincerely, George du Pont."
