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Arizona HighwaysBuild and Access the Collection – $500 “Civilization Follows the Improved Highway.” That was and still is the motto of the enduring and always alluring travel magazine Arizona Highways. It was first published in 1925 as an engineering newsletter by the Arizona Highway Department. By the 1930s, it had segued into a magazine...Read More |
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The Art Work of Louis C. TiffanyPreserve for the Future – $2,100 Dedicated to Louis Comfort Tiffany’s children, this biographical account features painted portraits and landscapes completed as Tiffany traveled the world. It includes design drawings and photographs relating to every aspect of his artistic career from stained glass and jewelry to glass vessels and...Read More |
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The Art Work of Louis C. TiffanyPreserve for the Future – $2,100 Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) was one of the most celebrated designers at the turn of the 20th century, known for his metal and glass work. But Tiffany was also a notable artist, who created beautiful drawings and paintings as well as three-dimensional works. This richly illustrated...Read More |
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Artificial Insemination Clouded Leopard Cubs (Slides)Build and Access the Collection – $450 These slides are from the files of Dr. JoGayle Howard (1951–2011), theriogenologist (veterinary reproductive specialist) at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and Conservation Biology Institute. Dr. Howard dedicated her career to breeding endangered species in captivity by adapting techniques...Read More |
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Aspen: The Magazine in a BoxBuild and Access the Collection – $500 This FAB detergent box in dayglo colors is actually the cover of Aspen: The Magazine in a Box, Volume 1 Issue 3, December 1966. It is one of six issues owned by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library and was designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. As with all...Read More |
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The Assay of Gold and Silver WaresPreserve for the Future – $650 Printed by John Edward Taylor in 1852, Arthur Ryland’s (1807-1877) Assay of Gold and Silver Wares provides insight on the development of legislative practices designed to protect and regulate the assaying and minting of gold and silver coinage—or to fight against the practice of counterfeiting....Read More |
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Astra CastraBuild and Access the Collection – $500 Published in 1865, this work is a compendium of aeronautical literature ranging from ancient mythology to scientific advances of the 1860s. Christopher Hatton Turnor, the compiler, reviewed ballooning and other lighter-than-air flight, with some references to heavier-than-air flight attempts. The...Read More |
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The Auklet, November 1924Build and Access the Collection – $400 The Auklet was the humor magazine of the American Ornithologists' Union, first published in the early 1920s. Not to be confused with the AOU’s official quarterly magazine The Auk, its booklet-length Auklet cousin features short stories, poetry, phony meeting minutes, cartoons, fake advertisements,...Read More |
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Awareness of LoveBuild and Access the Collection – $3,500 Born in Chile, but settling in the United States in the mid-1960s, Juan Downey (1940-1993) explored many different art media. Although he became primarily known for his video art, he also created in other media, including painting, installations, and printmaking. Early in his career he studied in...Read More |
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BahiaPreserve for the Future – $750 Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923-2014), born in the vibrant, multicultural city of Montevideo, Uruguay, was a self-taught, tirelessly creative painter, potter, sculptor, composer, architect/builder, and writer. He began his artistic career at age 16, sketching nightlife in the bars and cabarets of Buenos...Read More |
