Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appointment of R. W. Harwood '20, who collected $120.50, the largest individual amount handed in J. W. Geary '20 was credited with the second largest collection of $118, and R. Saltonstall '20 was third with $117. In accordance with the rule followed by 1919 the amount each collector gave himself to the fund did not count in his totals, the actual collections alone being considered. Only $1,400 was secured last year by 1919 and the 1920 totals are the largest on record. The average amount turned in by each member of the committee was over $75. The money collected...
...Widener Library has just come into possession of a remarkable collection of English historical broadsides and proclamations printed between 1626 and 1700. The collection, which includes many from Lord Polwarth's library, has been formed during the past quarter century by a well-known collector and sold on his behalf to Harvard by Messrs. Dobell of Charing Cross Road. The only collections to rival it were those in England of Colonel F. Grant and J. E. Hodgkin, both now dispersed, and that in the possession of Lord Crawford...
...FitzRoy Carrington, Curator of the Department of Prints of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will give an illustrated lecture on "Italian Engraving: the Florentines," in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Mr. Carrington is editor of "The Collector's Quarterly" and has selected, arranged, and written introductions to many artistic publications...
...Playground Association of America, will lecture on Education. Mr. Lee, who has served for many years on the Boston School Committee, has been instrumental in securing much social legislation, particularly laws promoting playgrounds. FitzRoy Carrington, who will lecture on the History of Engraving, is the editor of the Print Collector's Quarterly and of many books, chiefly on poetry and engraving. He is at present Curator of the Department of Prints in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. Winship, who will deliver lectures on the History of Printing, is librarian of the Harry Elkins Widener collection...
...been received at the Widener Library and will be put on exhibition after the 105 volumes which constitute the collection have been arranged and catalogued. The collection is of extraordinary sentimental and monetary value, and is the gift of Mr. William Cross Williamson '52. Mr. Williamson was a noted collector and lover of Horace. When he died two years ago, he left the collection upon which he had spent so many years to the College Library. His daughter, Mrs. Edes, sent the books from Boston and they have now been unpacked. The volumes, which are in many cases bound...