Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because the photographs portray several types of Mexican architecture from early Baroque to modern utilitarian schools, they are sure to be of interest to students in any one of the architectural fields. Pictures of modern low-cost housing units in Mexico City are side by side with views of 16th century Franciscan arches...
From November 8 to December 6, German graphic art of the 15th and 16th centuries will be displayed, while an exhibit of modern will run from December 11 to January...
...Presidents' collection are books owned and signed by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hoover and Coolidge, as well as others. Lincoln's Shakspere volumes, and a signed letter from the 16th President are shown. The only book from the library of Andrew Johnson is the text of his impeachment trial proceedings, together with a ticket of admission to the trial. Herbert Hoover's own copy of "American Individualism" of which he was the author is likewise displayed. The books are, for the most part, the gift of Henry S. Howe...
...never saw them before. Nevertheless it appeared last week that Director Pratt had unearthed a highly unusual hoard from the old Crocker cache. Of 60 drawings which have never been seen before in the U. S., the majority on display were by expert Flemish and Dutch draftsmen of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Nicolaas Berchem, Phillips Wouwerman, Willem van Bemmel, Jakob van Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Rubens. Among the paintings which had been cleaned off and hung decently were a Madonna by Andrea del Sarto, portraits by the Elder and Younger Lucas Cranach, a panel by Pieter ("Hell") Breughel, works of Poussin...
...flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century cello that once belonged to Virtuoso Hans Kindler. His favorite instrument, at the moment, however, is a "probosciphone," a small metal device that fits over the nose and on which he can produce a shrill tune by blowing hard. So far neither Mrs. Scott, the former Margaretta Morris...