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Letter concerning manufacture of platinum, 1768.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts LJS 180
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Early works to 1800.
- Technology.
- Platinum--History.
- Platinum.
- History.
- France--History--Louis XV, 1715-1774.
- France.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, French.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of ms. 836.
- Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
- Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
- Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
- Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 bifolium)
- Contained In:
- Industrial History Letters and Documents. Item 10
- Place of Publication:
- 1768.
- Language Note:
- In French.
- Summary:
- Letter written in Metz, dated 28 April 1768, to the inspector of manufacture of arms in Maubeuge, concerning the production of platinum (platine); signed Boileau. Originally folded for mailing, with address and remnants of sealing wax on former exterior.
- Local Notes:
- Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.
- Cited as:
- UPenn LJS 180.
- OCLC:
- 798129836
- Online:
- The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page
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