Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cannon Discusses Photo Collection...
...with two memorial exhibitions. One, at the Metropolitan Museum of the portraits and landscapes of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, commemorated the 100th anniversary of the telegraph. One, at the Public Library of the amazing wood engravings of Timothy Cole, famed craftsman of the '90s, recalled the days-before-photo-engraving.* Critics left them unvisited until they had paid their respects to the first showing in years of the painting of the Mahatma Eilshemius...
...Before the introduction of photo-engraving the U. S. illustrated magazines (Scribner's, Harper's, Century) employed a group of U. S. wood-block engravers of unmatched dexterity. They copied oil paintings, photographs, etchings, drawings. To the day of his death gaunt irascible Joseph Pennell urged their recognition by serious art critics. Most of them were of German descent. Timothy Cole, ablest, best-known, was British-born...
...Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
...along comes an Associated Press photo in the picture section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6. with the legend that "One Charles Chaplin-not ours-is the present champion and has put up a purse of twenty pounds for the winner of this contest." I have accused you of erring, but it now occurs to me that the Chicago Tribune may have erred! May I suggest an explanation of these conflicting reports...