Word: expositioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ward's shipped a big consignment (value undisclosed) of rocks, fossils, insects, snake skulls, animal and human skeletons to the Exposition Nacional de 1936 at Barranquilla, Colombia. Last week also, with hundreds of small orders for fossils and other material coming in from school children the world...
Ward's exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 was purchased for $100,000 by Marshall Field and in time grew into the Field Museum of Natural History. Theodore Roosevelt sent some of his African trophies to Ward's for mounting. The establishment was incorporated...
His first paintings, large allegorical exercises in the manner of Delacroix, won him early recognition. In 1873, Painter Degas went to New Orleans to visit his uncle Michel and his two younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent...
Technical difficulties were greater than mink-chinned Sculptor Bartholdi expected. By the time the Philadelphia Exposition opened all that was ready was Liberty's torch, right hand and wrist, but that was imposing enough. An armature for a statue 152 ft. high was beyond the capabilities of Sculptor Bartholdi...
¶ Exhibited at the National Hotel Exposition in Manhattan were an automatic device for detecting bogus money and bad checks, a pump apparatus for dealing with flooded bathrooms, a meat-softening substance called tendra which is extracted from a South Sea Island plant.