Word: collector
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collecting, placing it all under one head, the graduate manager. As it is now, the crew manager, the Mott Haven management, and even the cricket and lacrosse teams work away to raise money, without any cooperation. As a result they clash more or less, and a number of collectors have to cover the same ground. It is very doubtful whether altogether they are able to raise more from a given number of individuals than could a single collector, asking for additions to a general fund. It is probable then that the change would result in an economy of labor...
...object of the collector was to secure the best works of the great masters. Many of the engravings are valued as beautiful and accurate transcripts of paintings, others for some peculiar merit of their own or because they are important in the history of art. Thus there is a specimen of the work of the earliest known German engraver and also an Italian engraving of a very early date...
...Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works of art in America...
...exercises attending the opening of the Mechanics Fair in Boston yesterday morning, an address was made by President Eliot. Among the other speakers of the occasion were Governor Greenhalge and Collector Warren. The Centennial Hymn, composed by J. K. Paine, formed a notable feature of the programme...
...Saltonstall was for many years one of the prominent leaders of the Democratic party in this state. He was speaker of the House of Representatives a member of Congress, and in 1885 was collector of the port of Boston. He was commissioner for Massachusetts to the Centennial Exhibition, and held other positions of eminence...