Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
Moreover I have on my desk a Brooks Brothers catalog, put out in the spring of 1908, with a photograph of a camel's hair ulster as part of its regular ready-made stock. I was sufficiently interested in the matter to try to verify my recollection that the material was indeed camel's hair and, with the co-operation of their Woolens Department, I ascertained that the piece-goods from which they were cut in those days came from Jaeger's, in Austria, were 100% pure camel's hair, and that Brooks Brothers were...
London's Sotheby & Co.. famed art auctioneers, recently issued an elaborate 171-page volume with 62 rotogravure plates entitled, "Catalog of the Magnificent Contents of 148 Piccadilly. W. I." No. 148 Piccadilly, W. I. was built in 1865 by Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, father of the first Baron Rothschild, who was elected to Parliament for the City of London in 1847 but remained unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest...
...become serious business for thousands, a hobby for millions. Last week New York's Museum of Modern Art continued its great series of loan exhibitions with the most-comprehensive exhibition ot photography ever held in the U. S. With 841 separate exhibits backed by a 225-page explanatory catalog, the Museum has attempted to present and illustrate the history and development of photography, and also to show a selection of the work of the greatest living photographers...
Organizer of the show and author of the catalog, which was hailed last week as one of the most concise histories of photography available in English, was the Museum's librarian, Beaumont Newhall. With prints as well as actual pieces of equipment he has been able to show practically every milestone in the history of photography. Of particular interest is an 18th Century camera obscura, a box with a simple lens at one end, a ground glass screen at the other which showed an inverted image of any brightly lighted object at which it was pointed, was widely used...