Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Plaster Cast in Robinson Hall...
Professor Kuno Francke, eurator of the Germanic Museum, has just received an official message from Saxony to the effect that His Majesty King Friedrich August has given to the Museum a full-sized reproduction in plaster of the sandstone pulpit of the church of Wechselburg, near Leipzig...
...plaster cast of the figure of Chronos, designed by F. E. Elwell and exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, has been presented to the Union by S. B. Elwell '10 and A. F. Elwell '10. The figure, which will be received in three or four weeks, will probably be placed on the wall over the stairway leading from the main hall of the Union to the second floor...
...white marble, instead of limestone and brick as originally intended, and are connected by an esplanade of the same material as well as by surface and underground passages. Marble is used in the floors of the vestibules, but the other floors are of hard pine. The walls are of plaster, which will be painted, and are finished throughout in stained oak. The hot-water system is being used and both gas and electric lighting have been installed. The Power House, constructed of brick, and the Animal House, of plaster, are also connected by tunnels with the Physiology and Bacteriology Buildings...
This code, dating from about 2250 B.C., was discovered in the winter of 1901-2, and contains 247 laws, engraved on a column of hard stone, about seven feet high. There is a plaster cast of the column in the Peabody Museum...