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Citing the Coop's varied history, from originally selling firewood to storing steamer trunks and later serving as a laundromat and pharmacy, Murphy said, "We will always support what is going on at the University and adapt to what the students want...
...excitement over our new home furnishings spills over into the latest additions to Sahib GearŠ, our traditional themewear collection for anyone born too late to experience colonial rule, steamer travel, first-edition Fitzgerald, freshly ironed linen and servants who were like members of the family. Since you can't go back to Paris in the '20s or Havana in the '40s or even Brooklyn in the '50s, we bring it to you, with all the quality jodhpurs, dusters, spats, boaters, corsets, spurs, poodle skirts, pince-nez and butcher's smocks you've come to expect from...
...rare books at the Berlin State Arts Museum, he began obsessively photographing illustrations, lithographs, old prints and any other images within focal reach of his Leica. In 1935 Bettmann fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. with $5 and his father's best suit. He also took with him two steamer trunks of exposed 35-mm film. This trove grew into what Bettmann, a courtly scholar as well as a clever businessman, proudly merchandised as a "complete history of civilization...
...early 20s, 17 years before I was born. He never discussed his life in Jamaica, but I do know that he was the second of nine children born to poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk, and eventually became foreman...
...death in 1956. The exhibits accurately convey just how prolific and innovative Nolde was in the field of printmaking. Working with sporadic intensity, Nolde experimented with colors, painting techniques, materials and papers. He often etched directly onto his metal plates, which created frayed edges and scenes, as in "The Steamer--large, dark" (1910) of velvety mist. In his woodcuts, even the grain of the wood was used to simulate textures...