Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to the museum where we saw a great many Chinese things such as weapons, crockery and also models. We saw the jacket in which the Prince of Orange was killed and maney other things. We then drove through a park to the summer palace which was very Elegant and we saw the queen. After dinner we saw the winter palace (magnificent but cold) and a bazar and a shop. This is the first city that has horse cars...
...recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize of $50. Now Seneca John will be taken to Dearborn, Mich., and given a permanent place in Henry Ford's museum of U. S. antiques...
Last week, a replica of the famed Apollo Belvidere* was placed in the Greenville, S. C., Museum of Art. The citizens of Greenville gazed at it in dismay. Then they went home and wrote letters, begging officials to swaddle the statue because its nakedness offended them...
...students and school children in the City of New York a greater number of concerts at a price within the reach of everyone. It is the wish of the officers that the new orchestra will bear the same relationship to the musical life of the city as the Metropolitan Museum bears to those interested in the graphic and plastic arts...
...Kleist and Hebbel", Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...