Word: museums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dates back to an idea conceived by a Yale man. In 1856 Professor Othniel C. Marsh, impressed by his discoveries in an insignificant, little shell-heap in Newark, New Jersey, wrote to his uncle, George Peabody of London, that he felt it might be a good idea if a museum of American archacology and rthnology were established in this country. Peabody, having already intended to give something to Harvard, gathered in the suggestion with open arms, the result being that on October 16, 1866, a deed of trust conveying to a board of trustees...
There is a comparatively unimpressive building situated on Divinity Avenue, bearing the equally unimpressive name. "Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology." In fact, so prosaic is the appearance of the edifice that, in looks, it has often been compared with a typical. New England shirt factory. In this instance, however, looks and name are deceiving, for within the four walls of that structure are enough "finests" to phase the most blatant, peep show touter. Who would guess, for example, that there are more dead queens residing in that Museum than there are live ones in Europe today...
...During alerts, books, games and drawing materials amuse visiting children who hurry to the museum's air-raid shelter. Counseled the Academy: "It has been found that a can of cookies is a very necessary part of a museum's wartime equipment...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
Remodeled, redecorated, and furnished in part with Metropolitan Museum pieces of Early American vintage, Manhattan's 143-year-old Gracie Mansion was finally ready for occupancy as the City's home for its Mayor. Museum Director Francis Taylor dryly broke the news that Mayor LaGuardia had not set foot in the mansion since Park Commissioner Robert Moses had made the first move to remodel it last February. Said Taylor: "Commissioner Moses is trying to make an early American out of LaGuardia. The Mayor isn't too enthusiastic." The wallpaper in the Mayor's bedroom...