Mary Hallock Foote
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Mary Hallock Foote was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American
Mary Hallock Foote (c.1874)
Portrait sketch of Mary Hallock Foote, by her daughter, Elisabeth Foote
Arthur De Wint Foote
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Arthur De Wint Foote was an American civil engineer and mining engineer who impacted the development of the American West with his innovative engineering works and entrepreneurial ventures. In Norther
Mary Hallock Foote
…become established in New York City as an accomplished artist-illustrator for notable publishers there. In 1876 Hallock married a young mining engineer, Arthur De Wint Foote, then moved cross-continent to live with him at the New Almaden mine near San Jose, California. Subsequently, as Arthur pursued his engineering career…
North Star House (Grass Valley, California), 1907. Photo by Arthur De Wint Foote.
Thirty foot diameter Pelton wheel designed by Foote