Hagley Museum and Library, Pictorial Collections Dept.; Accession 70.1, Pierre Gentieu photographic prints collection.

Hagley Museum and Library, Pictorial Collections Dept.; Accession 85.229, Pierre Gentieu photographic prints of Hagley Yard.

Pierre A. Gentieu was a long-term employee of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company who created an invaluable photographic record of the company's Brandywine Mills at the turn of the century.

This small collection includes original drymounted photographic prints of views near Henry Clay Village in Delaware by Pierre Gentieu. Several have simple hand drawn decorative borders on them and are signed. Others are drymounted on printed boards with more elaborate borders, and they have the credit line, "P. Gentieu Henry Clay, Del." Most of these are duplicate images found in other Pictorial collections with Gentieu photographs. Some of the locations are identified in penmanship on the borders. There is also a torn copy of a much printed panorama of the abandoned Du Pont Company rollmills along Brandywine Creek. There are two printed items labeled "Du Pont's Rifle Powder" each showing halftone images of magnified grains of Du Pont Company gunpowder, a scene with hunted deer, and a rifle range with the uniformed American Rifle Team. There are also four halftones of scenic views along the Brandywine of which two have captions.

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