Robert John Henderson De Loach photograph album, 1918.

De Loach, R. J. H. (Robert John Henderson), 1873-1964.

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R.J.H. De Loach was a professor at the University of Georgia, an investigator into questions bearing on the cotton industry, a director of the Armour Company, and a close friend of John Burroughs and Harvey Firestone Jr. Between 1915 and 1924, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Firestone, and Burroughs, calling themselves The Four Vagabonds, embarked on a series of summer camping trips. Others joined the group at various times, including family members, business associates, photographers, and newsmen. D...

Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938

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Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

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American naturalist and writer. From the description of Poem 1917. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49995946 One of America's great naturalist authors. From the description of Memorabilia, 1905-1931. (Hartwick College). WorldCat record id: 27057683 American teacher, naturalist, poet, and essayist of national prominence. Friend of Walt Whitman; influenced by Thoreau, Carlyle, and Emerson. Employed accurate observations of nature, scientific re...