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When an exhibition of some original manuscripts of Dylan Thomas opens later this spring at Houghton Library, the Welsh poet will take his place beside Harvard's first charter and Edwin Booth's last cigar. Within the walls of the red-brick, air-tight, thief-proof building are not only...
Some of her treasures Queen Mary got as gifts from royal relatives all over Europe, but most of them were prizes won in a long lifetime of stalking antique stores. Her Majesty's great green Daimler was a familiar sight parked in front of London shops. When she arrived...
Believing that 16th century Dutch architecture would blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later...
One of the world's principal research centers for anthropologists, zoologists, biologists, botanists, geologists and specialists in solar radiation, the Smithsonian surfers troubles that are continually compounded. Already it has 33,200,000 assorted curios and relics in its catalogue and more pour in every year.
Once the hall has been cleaned out and tidied up, the Casino elders plan to fill it with relics and sport curios. On its walls will hang photographs of such court immortals as Richard D. Sears, Robert D. Wrenn, Bill Tilden and Don Budge. The racquets they used and the...