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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...
...great "Triumphal Car" by Durer, dated 1522, was one of the woodcuts planned by the Emperor Maximilian to glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...
...order of General Pershing the Y. M. C. A. set up a canteen system for the A. E. F., and its work was commended by the commanding general during the war and afterward, and an exhaustive inquiry conducted by the Army by direction of General Pershing resulted in complete disproval of such innuendos as Mr. Scott's as well as refutation of every accusation made against the association. All the work done by the Y was under general orders, describing...
...Grant viewed Bishop McConnell with pious but vigorous alarm. In fact, he said, he would like "to set in motion an effort that will speedily rid the Council [Federal Council of Churches] of such a dangerous leader, or to insist upon our church absolutely withdrawing from the Council...
Melville Elijah Stone was the son of a Methodist minister. At the age of nine he learned to set type. ... At 28, he organized a company to publish the Chicago Daily News as a penny newspaper. Pennies were not then in wide circulation in Chicago, so Publisher Stone had several barrels of them shipped from the Philadelphia mint. He also persuaded merchants to sell some of their goods at penny-stimulating prices...