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Are you sure it's not del.? i.e., delineator.
    This abbreviation  often appears following the renderer's name in architectural drawings.
    Raymond Smith / R.W. Smith Bookseller
 
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From: "Stan Shiebert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] abbreviation


> On an architect's sketch from about 1900, after the architect' name, are
> the letters "D.E.L." Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation might
> stand  for? He was a Seattle architect, originally from Vienna, where he
> studied. I was thinking of "Docteur es Lettres" (though that wouldn't
> fit with his Austrian background,) or perhaps a diploma in sometihing or
> other. Any help would be, as usual, greatly appreciated.
>
> Stan Shiebert
> Librarian
> Arts, Recreation & Literature Department
> Seattle Public Library
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