Ophelia Troup Dent papers, 1922-1973 [microform].

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Ophelia Troup Dent papers, 1922-1973 [microform].

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Twenty-three folders of account books, letters, cards, business papers, and records relating to the house. Correspondents include the du Pont family, Jean Parrish, and the Andrew Wyeth family. A number of letters are from a librarian friend who lived in Greenwich Village, NY, in the 1920's. Specific topics, such as a hurricane (1944), rice bird research, and the lumber trade, are covered in the papers.

Partial microfilm reel.

Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Georgia Department of Archives and History Library

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Wyeth, Andrew, 1917-2009

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Andrew Wyeth (b. July 12, 1917, Chadds Ford, PA–d. Jan. 16, 2009, Chadds Ford, PA) was a realist painter and one of the best known American artists of the 20th century. He is the son of artist N.C. Wyeth and began drawing at a young age. In 1937, at age twenty, Wyeth had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the Macbeth Gallery in New York City....

Dent, Ophelia Troup, 1886-1973.

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Parrish, Jean J. 1904-

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Hofwyl Plantation.

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Ophelia was the youngest and last surviving child of James and Miriam Cohen Dent of Hofwyl Plantation, Glynn Co., GA. Neither she, her brother Gratz (1881-1932), nor her sister Miriam G. (1883-1953) married. After their brother's death, the sisters operated Hofwyl as a dairy, and their friend, Pierre S. du Pont set up a trust for them. Ophelia traveled to and with her wealthier friends from Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, and supported a wide range of Christian, Jewish, white, and bl...

Du Pont family.

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