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Lou Henry Hoover

(Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944)

Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was an American philanthropist, geologist, and the first lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933 as the wife of President Herbert Hoover. She was active in community organizations and volunteer groups throughout her life, including the Girl Scouts of the USA, which she led from 1922 to 1925 and from 1935 to 1937. Throughout her life, Hoover supported women's rights and women's independence. She was a polyglot, fluent in Mandarin and well-versed in Latin, and was the primary translator from Latin to English of the complex 16th-century metallurgy text De re metallica. (From Wikipedia)

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Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944, ed.: De Re Metallica, Translated From the First Latin Edition of 1556, With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy and Mining Law From the Earliest Times to the 16th Century (London: The Mining Magazine, 1912), by Georg Agricola, also ed. by Herbert Hoover
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944, ed.: De Re Metallica, Translated From the First Latin Edition of 1556, With Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices Upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Mineralogy and Mining Law From the Earliest Times to the 16th Century (New York: Dover Publications, 1950), by Georg Agricola, also ed. by Herbert Hoover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Additional books by Lou Henry Hoover in the extended shelves:

Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944: Georgius Agricola De re metallica (The Mining magazine, 1912), also by Georg Agricola, Herbert Hoover, and Albert Frost & Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944: Georgius Agricola De re metallica. tr. from the 1st Latin ed. of 1556, with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law, from the earliest times to the 16th century (Dover Publications, 1950), also by Georg Agricola and Herbert Hoover (page images at HathiTrust)

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