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...Guggenheim fortune began with laces and embroideries in Philadelphia, whither Meyer Guggenheim migrated from Switzerland in 1848. Meyer and Barbara Myers Guggenheim had seven sons. Daniel went to Switzerland when he was but 17 to buy goods for the Philadelphia store. While he was away his father invested in some Colorado mines. When Daniel returned to the U. S. the family moved their lace & embroidery business, as M. Guggenheim's Sons, to Manhattan...
...very prosperous. But the mining investments promised more fortune. The sons sold the lace & embroidery business and went to Colorado. They finally consolidated a great lead and silver industry. The sons are noted in U. S. business for working as a unit. Daniel's ability was rated akin to genius. After his father, he was the leader of the Guggenheims...
...Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled...
...toys and precisely 20 fine squawking parrots. The Duchess cannot appear at a bazaar, lay a cornerstone, or address the Girl Guides (of which she is one) without having pressed upon her-"for Baby Betty, the darling!"-everything from four-leaf clovers offered by grubby children to the historic lace diaper presented by a beaming Irish woman with a shawl over her head. An efficient staff was busy all last week dealing with birthday presents; but to find out which of the vast collection ever reached the "P'incess" would be like probing a state secret. Two sure bets...
...sixteenth century Albrecht Durer is represented by his "Life of the Virgin" which clearly shows methods of lighting utilized in his time, the styles of furniture, and sanitary facilities. Other engravings by Durer include a design for lace, and his famous "St. Jerome in his Cell," which illustrates a porcelain slove. A picture by Lucas Granach splendidly portrays a suit of sixteenth century armor...