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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC02711.28 |
From Archive Folder | Items relating to William E. Jones |
Title | List of items shipped from Liverpool, including grape vines and fruit trees |
Date | 10 January 1859 |
Author | Vilmorin Andrieux & Companie (fl. 1859) |
Recipient | Landell, J.H. |
Document Type | Correspondence; Business and financial document |
Content Description | Lists items shipped from Liverpool, including grape vines and fruit trees. Requests that the items be shipped to William E. Jones in Glad Springs, Virginia, as soon as possible. |
Subjects | Confederate General or Leader Merchants and Trade Commerce Global History and Civics Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Finance |
People | Vilmorin Andrieux Company (fl. 1775-1975) Jones, William E. (1824-1864) |
Place written | Paris, France |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | In 1743, Madame Claude Geoffrey, known as the "maitresse grainetiere" in Paris, opened a boutique for plants and seeds with her husband Pierre d'Andrieux, then the chief seed supplier and botanist for King Louis XV. Geoffrey and Andrieux's daughter later married Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin, who joined the business in 1775. The boutique added Vilmorin's name, becoming Vilmorin-Andrieux and operated for more than two hundred years, collaborating with horticulturalists, farmers, and a natural history specialist to create the first seed catalog. The Vilmorin name gained international status in the nineteenth century when Louis de Vilmorin, a biologist, chemist, and grandson of Philippe de Vilmorin, established groundbreaking research for the modern seed-breeding industry. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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