It's back to school season, and the Hagley Vault is going way, way back to school this week. All the way back to ca. 1890, to join John Augustus Fisher (1890-1944), a classmate of Henry Belin du Pont (1873-1902) at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
This glass negative portrait is part of Hagley Library's collection of P.S. du Pont photographs (Accession 1969.002). Pierre Samuel "P.S." du Pont (1870-1954) was Henry Belin du Pont's brother, as well being the president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1915 to 1919 and chairman of the board from 1919 to 1940.
The collection contains images of his large extended family, his many foreign and domestic journeys, his home at Longwood, and his personal and professional interests. It has not been digitized in its entirety. Click here to view it now in the Hagley Digital Archives.