Word: displays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adapted to artistic effect and to exhibition of many of the specimens, but that I could not avoid concluding that it thoroughly resembled the condition of the traditional nouveau riche's library, who had arranged his books only by the size and color of their bindings and for consequent display of their beauty to his friends, in contra-distinction to that of the scholar, whose library is arranged by subjects, and for utility and his progress in study...
There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry show and in their total inability to do so hung in anxious frenzy over prisons in which specimens of canaries whistled their shrill chants. These canaries were a special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food...
...unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case...
...awards are divided into three classifications. The first is a gold medal given for distinguished services to advertising. The second group is for distinguished individual advertisements, four prizes of $1000 each being presented for the advertisements most effective in the use of text, of pictorial illustration, of display line, and of photography. The third class is for advertising campaigns. There are four prizes of $2000 each given for a national campaign for a specific product, a local campaign for a specific product, for a general or institutional campaign, and for a campaign of industrial products...
Valuable autographs from the Amy Lowell collection make up the greater part of the display now being exhibited in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. One of the most prized specimens included in this group is the original copy of an unpublished epitaph by Ben Jonson...