Iron Men and Their Dogs. A History of Hayward & Friend...Hayward Kartlett...Koppers... de [MARYLAND INDUSTRY]. Latrobe Ferdinand C

Baltimore: Ivan R. Drechsler [For Private Distribution], 1941. . Large 8vo, terracotta cloth, front highly gilt with vignette of Koppers Company Bartlett Howard Division entrance with two iron dogs, Sailor and Canton. ONE OF 500 NUMBERED COPIES.A history of the evolution of the original company that morphed into locomotive production and many other large scale iron productions.The dogs were the symbols of the companies and represented the enjoyment that leading members of the board derived from duck hunting and the retrieval of the shot birds by native American dogs, the Chesapeake Bay Retriever.No book on the Chesapeake district would be complete without a nod to the terrapin and indeed the last chapter "Canvasback and Diamondback" has instructions for the preparing of both delicacies, the wild duck, and terrapin