The
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Creator: Louisa Gerhard
Title: Papers
Dates:
1807-1900
Call
No.: Arc. 20
Quantity: 2 boxes
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Louisa Gerhard married Gen. Henry du Pont on
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This collection contains correspondence among various Gerhard and du Pont family members as well as a number of books on religion.
ORGANIZATION
Collection is arranged in four series and within each box, folders are arranged alphabetically by folder
title. Series 3 holds correspondence;
series 6 holds objects; series 8 holds publications, such as books; and series
9 holds social forms. Series 1, 2, 4, 5,
7, 10, and 11 are not represented. The original finding aid to the collection,
done in MSAccess, appears at the end of this finding aid.
PROVENANCE
Collection is owned by the Henry Francis du
Pont Winterthur Museum. It was assembled over
several years, from 1969-1978, by transfers and gifts from various
sources: in 1969, from the clerical division of the Wilmington, Del. Office of
Henry Francis du Pont; in 1972, from the office of the properties and gardens
divisions at Winterthur; in 1973, from the H.F. du Pont House at Winterthur; in
1974, from the Coach House at Winterthur; and in 1978, as a gift.
RELATED MATERIALS
Papers of Gen. Henry du Pont, Col. Henry A. du Pont, Evelina du Pont,
and Victorine du Pont Foster, also owned by the Henry Francis du Pont
ACCESS POINTS
Du Pont, Gen. Henry, 1812-1889
Du Pont, Col. Henry Algernon, 1846-1926
Du Pont, Evelina, 1840-1938
Foster, Victorine, 1849-1934
Books
Correspondence
Religion
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Folder title |
Series |
Box |
Names cited |
Subjects |
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Atlas (1827) |
74LG8 |
B3 |
J.E. Worcester |
publication, inscription |
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'Barnes' Notes - Gospels' (1846) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Albert Barnes |
publication, inscription |
|
Beauduy, Victorine (1876) |
73LG3 |
B2 |
Laura Bridgeman; Mrs. Baker; Dr. Howe; Mrs. Chandler |
blind, deaf, mute, death, friendship |
|
Beauduy, Victorine (n.d.) |
73LG3 |
B2 |
Abby A. Dillingham; C.C. Dillingham |
clipping, blind, death, mute |
|
Black, Mary G. (1889) |
69LG3 |
B2 |
Robert Frazer |
Bible, genealogy |
|
'Book of Psalms' (1856) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
publication, inscription |
|
|
Du Pont family (1807, 1817, 1834-1839) |
69LG3 |
B2 |
Victor du Pont; Charles Bing; W. du Pont; S.F. du Pont; Lt. Pendergrass |
[in French] explosion, death |
|
Du Pont, H. A. (1874) |
69LG3 |
B2 |
Mary Pauline Foster |
wedding |
|
Du Pont de Nemours, Alfred V. (1900) |
69LG9 |
B2 |
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours |
invitation, 100th anniversary |
|
Gerhard family (n.d., 1834-1851) [hard to read] |
72LG3 |
B4 |
Alfred du Pont; Jenny Gerhard |
clothes?, social networks, deaths, births, illness, travel, invitation |
|
Gerhard, Louisa (1900) |
74LG8 |
B2 |
Gen. Henry du Pont |
obituary |
|
Gerhard, William Wood (1830-1837) |
73LG3 |
B4 |
Niagara Falls; Mary Newman; J. Fisher; Dr. Pennock |
travel, weather, Scotland, England, [in French], education, languages, deaths, music, France, |
|
'Henrietta Temple' (1837) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Benjamin Disraeli |
publication, inscription |
|
'Pictorial Illustrations of the Bible' (1841) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Robert Sears |
publication, inscription |
|
'Taylor's Holy Living & Dying' (1843) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Jeremy Taylor |
publication, inscription |
|
'Three Eras of Woman's Life' (1836) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Elizabeth Elton Smith |
publication, inscription |
|
Walker, Elizabeth (1880) |
69LG3 |
B2 |
Miss Forbes |
birth of H.F. du Pont, spasms |
|
'West Point Life' (1859) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
Dialectic Society |
publication, inscription, notes |
|
'Words of Jesus' (1854) |
73LG8 |
B2 |
John Ross Macduff |
publication, inscription |