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Hope Mayo, Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, said that six students submitted their collections, writing an annotated bibliography and an essay about how and why the collection was formed.
"We judge the collection in terms of its interest and originality and coherence," she said. "But we don't look at rarity or the extent or size ... It's a judgment of the quality of the collection, rather than a judgment of external factors that may influence people's abilities...
Graduate student Philip C. Mead's collection, "The Art of War in Revolutionary America," was awarded the first-place prize of $2000.
He said his collection "consists of maps, printed materials like books and newspapers as well as engraved portraits and some objects like canteens with names inscribed ... All of these objects are from the period between 1750 and 1800."
Noah M. Silver '10, who is also a Crimson associate editorial chair, won the second-place prize of $1000 for his collection entitled, "Figbash and the Wild Things: The Illustrations of Edward St. John Gorey and Maurice Sendak."