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...valuable addition to the collection came in 1879 when the librarian discovered a package behind a board in old Gore Hall which contained the hand-drawn plans of British Revolutionary fortifications. Included is "A sketch of the Battle of Germantown 4th October 1777 where the rebels were repulsed." A short time later the red coated cartographer hid his maps and retreated...
Tiffany's, founded in 1837 by Connecticut-born Charles Lewis Tiffany, has always served the rich and the successful, and always disdained flamboyance (from 1905 to 1935 it even refused to put its name over the door). It still uses hand-drawn advertisements, refuses to sell cultured pearls, shies away from setting or even appraising any gem not bought at Tiffany's. Its personnel seems changeless too. Out of 617 employees, 258 have been with the company more than 25 years, two of its officers are direct heirs of Founder Tiffany, and President Moore is a great-grandson...
...Tunnel. Ley leads off with the tunnel under the English Channel. The first proposal (1802) was ahead of its time, but practical. Work began at both ends in about 1880. The English pilot tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been...
...contrast with these early examples of printing are three modern limited editions. One volume, that of the Bibliophile society of Boston, contains many hand-drawn illustrations. Also illustrated is the edition printed by Peter Davies of London, while the third modern product is that of the Medici society of London...
...means of a third gift, a collection of 237 hand-drawn and colored images, red Lamaism, the ancient, unaltered form of Buddism, has for the first time been satisfactorily explained to the Western World. Red Lamaism, which was later followed by the reformed yellow Lamaism, was in its ascendency in the fourteenth century...