Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Have you seen the evolution of printing and publishing in your town?
How did people write and circulate their views? it would be really interesting to get into this. It would speak a lot about the events and happenings in your town. Is there a museum in ur town/state that has a collection of the modes of print evolution?
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Can anything pass off as a collection with any captions?
Sam was collecting something unusual - various kinds of fetters used for slaves. Truman decided he needed to do something even better. He decided to do the same thing with captions that glorified the conquests over slaves. The above is just an example of the same kind of collection being done and...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Clip on collections made by nthusiastic collectors r like a circus of anti
Clips on collections made by enthusiastic collectors and the processes of collecting are like a circus of human antics. 'Cos they reflect the lengths that people can go to make their collections or widen them or make them unique.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Reposting: Vintage Collections of expensive things as it got little reading
Vintage collections of EXPENSIVE things! There are people who collect cars and even watches. Now even if I wanted toI wouldn't be able to. it's much too expensive. Can this be called a collection the way stamps are collected? Not if it is a collection of the present cars, i think? If it's vintage...
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Vintage collections of EXPENSIVE things!
There are people who collect cars and even watches. Now even if I wanted toI wouldn't be able to. it's much too expensive. Can this be called a collection the way stamps are collected? Not if it is a collection of the present cars, i think? If it's vintage cars, then that is a different matter. For...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
There is a collection that an organisation has made of all the posters
generated by the women's movement in India. The idea is to depict the historical evolution of the use of the poster in the women's movement and to be a source of inspiration and education. The collection went around to different parts of the country as an exhibition in the county hall of the major...
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Monday, November 5, 2007
This is a piece about museums and collections.so they may be appropriately
understood. It's a piece I came across on the net,,,, 2.4 Contextualising collections Many museums also conduct extensive research, including oral histories, in the course of their collecting and exhibiting activities. Recent programs which have contributed important insights to aspects of the...
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This is a piece about museums and collections.so they may be appropriately
understood. It's a piece I came across on the net,,,, 2.4 Contextualising collections Many museums also conduct extensive research, including oral histories, in the course of their collecting and exhibiting activities. Recent programs which have contributed important insights to aspects of the...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Understanding Palestinian philately - fw something interesting I came acros
A Short Introduction To The Philately Of Palestine Introduction: Mandate and Occupation The Postal Situation (1917-1948) Until the establishment of the civil administration all postal services were provided by Allied Field Post Offices of the Egyptian and Indian Expeditionary Forces (EEF and IEF)....
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Applying Statistical methods to Indian numismatics (coin collections)
Endowed with a powerful and far-reaching imagination and an outstanding mathematical ability, Kosambi, who had concentrated his mind almost exclusively upon mathematical research up to 1939, was gradually led to use his abstract methods for obtaining new results in various branches of social...
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