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...collection has recently been presented to the Peabody Museum by the heirs of David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration which...
For many years one of the buildings most needed at Cambridge has been a hall for our art collections. Professor Norton and others have written eloquent appeals on the subject, but to no purpose until now. By the will of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins Fogg. the widow of William...
...toward the purchase of works of art, and I do also give and bequeath to the said corporation all and singular the following works of art which I now possess, namely, all my paintings, articles of bric-a-brac and Indian, Chinese and Japanese jewelry, curios, carvings and other curiosities not otherwise disposed of to belong to and remain in the said Art Museum and to be called and known as the Fogg Collection...
By a curios coincidence there were ninety men present at the dinner given Friday night by the class of Columbia, '90, to their crew which defeated the Harvard Freshmen at New London last June.
The sale of Japanese bamboo curtains and portieres in beautifully worked designs and curios in vases, swords. Laquer and china goods, opening this week offers the students of Harvard a rare chance to obtain these very desirable goods at one half the usual price, at student emporium, 30 Boylston St...