Pamela C. and Lammot du Pont Copeland family photographs 1999.243
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Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Pamela C. and Lammot du Pont Copeland family photographs 1999.243
Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 5 Related Materials ...... 5 Controlled Access Headings ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 6 Pamela C. Copeland ...... 6 Lammot du Pont Copeland ...... 6 Family Members ...... 6 DuPont Company ...... 9 Locations ...... 10 Organizations ...... 10 Pamela C. Copeland ...... 10 Lammot du Pont Copeland ...... 10 Philanthropy ...... 10 Recognition ...... 11 Pamela C. Copeland ...... 11 Lammot du Pont Copeland ...... 11 Miscellaneous ...... 11
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Summary Information
Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Copeland, Pamela C. (Pamela Cunningham), 1906-2001 Creator: Copeland, Lammot du Pont, 1905-1983 Title: Pamela C. and Lammot du Pont Copeland family photographs ID: 1999.243 Date [inclusive]: 1810-1994 Physical Description: 3.5 Linear Feet Physical Description: 563 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. 3 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in. or smaller. 74 photographic prints : color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. 79 photographic prints : cartes de visite ; 4 x 2.5 in. 42 photographic prints : cabinet photographs ; 6.5 x 4.25 in. 7 photographic prints : tintypes ; 3.5 x 2.5 in. or smaller. 3 photographic prints : stereographs ; 3.25 x 6.75 in. 1 photographic print : cyanotype ; 1.5 x 2 in. 10 slides ; 35mm. 8 negatives : b&w ; 3.5 x 5.5 in. or smaller. 9 engravings ; 7.5 x 10.75 in. 3 prints ; 10 x 12 in. or smaller. 8 albums containing 1397 photographic prints ; 10.5 x 11 in. or smaller. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: Pamela Cunningham Copeland (1906-2001) and Lammot du Pont Copeland (1905-1983) were active in the land conservation movement, cultural institutions (including both the Hagley and Winterthur Museums), and local civic and philanthropic work. The collection contains photographs of Pamela and Lammot du Pont Copeland and family members. Many of the pictures document the couple's various activities and philanthropic endeavors.
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Biographical Note
Pamela Cunningham Copeland (1906-2001) and Lammot du Pont Copeland (1905-1983) were active in the land conservation movement, cultural institutions (including both the Hagley and Winterthur Museums), and local civic and philanthropic work.
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Pamela Cunningham Copeland was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on May 5, 1906, the daughter of Seymour and Stephanie Whitney Cunningham. She attended several boarding schools and graduated from the Knox School in Cooperstown, New York, in 1924. After graduation, she studied voice in New York City and took lessons at the Julliard School. In January 1929, she went to Paris to study voice and while there met Lammot du Pont Copeland.
Lammot du Pont Copeland was born in Christiana Hundred, Delaware, the only child of Charles and Louisa du Pont Copeland and a great-great-grandson of company founder E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 with a degree in chemistry and joined the DuPont Company at its Fairfield, Connecticut, plant in 1929.
The Copelands were married on February 1, 1930, and had three children: Lammot, Jr., Louisa d'Andelot Copeland, and Gerret van Sweringen Copeland. Lammot du Pont Copeland was transferred to the company's Wilmington headquarters in 1935, and the family settled on a 250-acre estate, Mount Cuba, which was completed in 1937.
Mrs. Copeland in particular has received many awards in horticulture and been active in historic preservation, most notably in the National Society of Colonial Dames' restoration of Gunston Hall and as a member of committees overseeing the preservation of the White House and the increase of its collection of historic art and artifacts. Mrs. Copeland was the co-author of "The Five George Masons" and the author of a memoir, "Recollections of Pamela Cunningham Copeland" describing her childhood in Litchfield. She died on January 25, 2001.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains photographs of Pamela and Lammot du Pont Copeland and family members. Many of the pictures document the couple's various activities and philanthropic interests.
A large portion of the collection consists of portraits and other photographs of numerous family members, particularly the Cunninghams, Copelands, and du Ponts, spanning the early 1800s through the 1990s. Other families pictured in the collection include Chester, Coit, Knickerbacker, Lincoln, Orr, Shattuck, Sprague, Swearingen, Tribou, Walker, Wallace, and Whitney. In addition to the many portraits of people, there are photographs of family homes, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, gravestones, and trips. In particular, several albums and scrapbooks include photographs of the school and leisure activities of Pamela Copeland and her Cunningham siblings, as well as trips to Europe and Morocco. Photographs from a 1929 trip Charles and Louisa du Pont Copeland took to France show Bois-des-Fosses and Chateau d'Andelot, du Pont ancestral homes in France. There are also photographs of Litchfield, Connecticut, and a photograph of the Troy-Waterford Bridge in Connecticut, 1881, which had been owned by the Knickerbacker family.
The collection also contains some photographs related to Lammot du Pont Copeland's career with the DuPont Company, including an office bridal shower, various meetings, and an album documenting the
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections
PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library
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Related Materials
Separated Material Copeland Family Papers (Accession 2203), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library
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Controlled Access Headings
• Du Pont family -- Homes and haunts • Portraits • Philanthropists • Europe -- Description and travel. • Recreation • Historic preservation • Copeland family • Du Pont family • E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
Collection Inventory
Pamela C. Copeland Title/Description Instances Pamela C. Copeland, 1906-1980 box 1
Pamela and Lammot Copeland, 1981-1982undated box 1
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Lammot du Pont Copeland Title/Description Instances Lammot du Pont Copeland - photographs and oil portrait, box 1 1905-1977
Lammot du Pont Copeland - Album, 1905-1910 box 1
Awards - Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1958 box 1
Birthday - Lammot du Pont Copeland - photographs of murals box 1 used to decorate the tent for Mr. Copeland's 60th birthday, 1965
Homes - Mr. and Mrs. Copeland, 1929-1935 box 1
Office - Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1947undated box 1
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Family Members
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Title/Description Instances Chester Family, 18101907 box 2
Coit Family, 1895-1913 box 2
Charles Copeland II, circa 1864-1917 box 2
Charles Copeland II - Home, 19101916undated box 2
Charles Copeland III, 1867-1940 box 2
Charles Copeland III - Harvard Room, circa 1889 box 2
Louisa du Pont Copeland, 1904-1922undated box 2
Sophia Copeland, 1860-1864undated box 2
Dorothy Coulter, undated box 2
Cunningham Family, 1895-1928 box 2
Cunningham Family Album, 1907-1909 box 2
Cunningham Family Album, 1907-1913 box 3
Cunningham Family Album, 1916-1918 box 3
Cunningham Family Album, 1918-1927 box 3
Cunningham Family Album, 1927 box 3 Scope and Contents note
album from a trip to Morocco
Cecil Cunningham, 1893-1956 box 3 Scope and Contents
photographs of Mrs. Cunningham and of her son Alexis
Jane Cunningham, 1914-1954 box 4 Scope and Contents note
photographs of Mrs. Cunningham and of her sons
Jane C. Cunningham, 1850-1915 box 4 Scope and Contents
Mrs. Cunningham and of her home
John and Matilda Cunningham, 1918 box 4 Scope and Contents
photograph of their tombstone
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Seymour Cunningham, 1876-1939 box 4
Seymour and Stephanie Cunningham - Anniversaries, 19321942 box 4
Seymour and Stephanie Cunningham - Home, 1893-1994 box 4
Stephanie Whitney/Cunningham, 1892-1929 box 4
William Orr Cunningham, 1856-1918 box 4 Scope and Contents note
photographs of Mr. Cunningham and of his tombstone du Pont Family, 1850undated box 4
Aileen M. du Pont, 1972 box 4
Pauline L. du Pont, circa 1915 box 4
Pierre S. du Pont II, 1954undated box 4
Stephen J. Field, 1864 box 4
Peter Haines, 1924 box 4 Scope and Contents
photographs of his painted portrait
Gen. Hezekiah Haynes, 1926 box 5 Scope and Contents
photograph of a 1676 portrait
Henderson-Cowan Families, undated box 5
Andrew Jackson, 1889 box 5 Scope and Contents
photograph of a portrait
Knickerbacker Family, 1863-1918 box 5
Knickerbacker Family - Home, 18701890 box 5
John Knickerbacker, 1805 box 5
John Knickerbacker II, 1850-1862 box 5
John Knickerbacker III, 1850 box 5
Lincoln Family, 1830-1873 box 5
Orr Family, 1866undated box 5
William Orr, 1871 box 5
Hepzibak Sampson, 1864 box 5
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Shattuck Family, undated box 5
Oakes A. Spalding, 1928 box 5
Sprague Family, 1957undated box 5 Scope and Contents
photographs of Gov. Sprague, another family member, and the family cemetery
Swearingen Family, undated box 5
Tribou Family, undated box 5
Walker Family, 1886, undated box 5
Walker Family - Homes, undated box 5
Edward C. R. Walker, 1860-1897 box 5
Joseph T. Walker, undated box 5
Samuel Walker, 1849undated box 5
Thomas Walker, undated box 5
Wallace Family, undated box 5
Whitney Family, undated box 5
Charlotte A. Whitney, circa 1875 box 5
George E. Whitney, undated box 5 Scope and Contents note
photographs of Mr. Whitney and of his tombstone
Mary L. Whitney, 1865-1985 box 5 Scope and Contents
photographs of Mrs. Whitney and of her wedding portrait
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DuPont Company Title/Description Instances Bridal Shower, undated box 6
Meetings, 1941-1957 box 6
150th Anniversary, 1952 box 6
150th Anniversary Album, 1952 box 6
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Locations Title/Description Instances Litchfield, Connecticut, 1932 box 6
Troy-Waterford Bridge, Connecticut, 1881 box 6
Chateau d'Andelot, France, 1929 box 6
Other Photographs, France, 1929 box 6
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Organizations
Pamela C. Copeland Title/Description Instances Gunston Hall Board of Regents, 19581980 box 6
Lammot du Pont Copeland Title/Description Instances Delaware Safety Council box 6
Harbill Associates, circa 1968 box 6 Scope and Contents note
photographs of one of their holdings
Tastevin Society, 1954undated box 6
Walpole Society, 1979-1980 box 6
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Philanthropy Title/Description Instances Pamela C. Copeland - Philanthropy - White House Preservation box 6 Fund, 1983
Pamela C. Copeland - Philanthropy - Chesapeake Bay Center for box 6 Field Biology, circa 1968
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Scope and Contents note
photograph of a satellite view of their property
Pamela C. Copeland - Philanthropy - Historic Red Clay Valley, box 6 1967-19681977 Scope and Contents note
photographs of scenery and of restorations in progress
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Recognition
Pamela C. Copeland Title/Description Instances Hagley Honors, 1994 box 7
Honorary Degree - University of Delaware, 1988 box 7
Philanthropist of the Year Award, 1988 box 7
Lammot du Pont Copeland Title/Description Instances Honorary Degrees - Lammot du Pont Copeland, 1961-1981 box 7 Scope and Contents
photographs of Mr. Copeland receiving honorary degrees from the University of Delaware, the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and the Philadelphia New School of Music
Legion d' Honneur, 1965 box 7
Netherlands Society of Philadelphia, 1968 box 7
Order of Officer of Leopold, 1960 box 7
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Miscellaneous Title/Description Instances Decorative Arts, 19371959 box 7
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Scope and Contents note
photographs of a chair, and of a painting before and after restoration
Visit - King Baudouin of the Belgians, 1959 box 7
Forbes Dinner, 1967 box 7
Mt. Cuba Bridge Being Moved, 1970 box 7
J.A. Lloyd Hyde, 19751979undated box 7 Scope and Contents note
photographs of Mr. Hyde and of a chandelier he obtained for the Copelands
Pamela C. Copeland - Meeting Presidents, 19781983 box 7 Scope and Contents note
photographs with Presidents Carter and Reagan
Lavoisier artifact, 1982 box 7 Scope and Contents note
photograph of a cabinet which once belonged to Lavoisier
Beyond Recognition, 1993 box 7 Scope and Contents note
photographs from this play by James du Pont
DuPont Gun Powder Advertisement, undated box 7
Oskenontoh, undated box 7 Scope and Contents
photograph of this Native American
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