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Museum studies
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A screen-printed portfolio cover containing eight screen prints that humorously critique museum methods and ideologies on material collection, exhibition, and organization. The portfolio was printed by Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies and is indicated by the chops (printer's marks) on the verso of the prints. The portfolio cover contains an image of a broken column, and the eight prints include labeled diagrams and charts of insects, sea creatures, birds, plants, and mythical creatures in a style reminiscent of nineteenth-century natural history illustrations. Titles include: On the Exhibition of a Museum Collection Object; Thorny Territory; Notable Bird Beaks of American History; Intangible Associations; Exhibition Paradise and Perdition; The Bestiary of Museum Visitors; On Museum Collection and Controls; and The Stegosaurus of Alfred H. Barr Jr. The prints are in red, blue, and black ink, and in pencil the artist has signed his name, date, and the edition number. This is the seventh edition out of the twenty that were printed.
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[Marsden, W----]? 1 print of Wooden bust of T.E. Lawrence, Imperial War Museum: [photo of bust], B&W; ([ca. 1965?])
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Note: print not stamped by the Imperial War Museum.
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Miscellaneous: Scrapbook album
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Scrapbook album, grey cloth covered. Decorated with image of classical Greek muse playing pan-pipes. This item is #02905 in Berger's catalogue under the title "Album of Invitations" with date range 1880-1910 and described simply as "Invitations to exhibition openings – A+C" with "A+C" presumably meaning "Arts and Crafts". The album contains many elaborately engraved invitations to various events such as gallery openings, dinners, book launch events, etc. associated with or intended for eminent figures of the Victorian and Edwardian Arts and Crafts milieu such as Gleeson White, Walter Crane, and John Diblee Crace.
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The museum of natural curiosities [graphic]
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Print depicts a horse-drawn closed wooden menagerie wagon from the back. The wagon is lettered with "The museum of natural curiosities". A young man is standing on tip toes, clutching the closed ramp, straining to peer in. The ramp is a flap which can be pulled (or opened) to reveal the scene inside: a lion, a tiger and another large cat ready to pounce on the young man, who is depicted at the end of the opened ramp with his arms outreached and his mouth open in surprise and horror.
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Blinding light
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Explores creative genius and fame through the life of a writer whose search for a muse has led him into dangerous and destructive places.
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Map of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys : showing Chain of Historic French Forts
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A blueline map with forts designated by number but no key to the meaning of the numbers. Key is probably in the Departments publication cited above. "Department of the Interior Hon. Thomas G. Murphy, Minister W. W. Cory, Deputy Minister." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Blueline print. Verso Text: MS note: 183549.
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