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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’S Multivalent Tower Of Faces, Grace Astrove
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’S Multivalent Tower Of Faces, Grace Astrove
Theses and Dissertations
Holocaust survivor Dr. Yaffa Eliach collected over 6,000 photographs depicting residents of Eishyshok, a small Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe, taken between 1890 and 1941. Eliach survived the Nazi-led massacre in 1941 that killed nearly the entire Jewish population of Eishyshok. As a way to commemorate the destroyed town of her youth she began to collect photographs from other survivors and residents who fled Europe prior to the Holocaust. She subsequently selected 1,032 photographs from the Yaffa Eliach Shtetl Collection for display in The Tower of Faces, a permanent exhibition in The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, …
Reichenbachia, Imperial Edition: Rediscovering Frederick Sander’S Late-Victorian Masterpiece Of Botanical Art, Erica Borey
Reichenbachia, Imperial Edition: Rediscovering Frederick Sander’S Late-Victorian Masterpiece Of Botanical Art, Erica Borey
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis project examines the history, provenance, and contemporary treatment of a rare Imperial Edition of Frederick Sander’s print collection Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated and Described, a high-quality orchid compendium dating to the late-nineteenth century. A local philanthropist loaned the Imperial Edition Reichenbachia, number 86 of 100 to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in 2011 on a long-term basis as a promised donation. Research into the origins of this collection involves several disparate historical topics, including the Victorian period of “orchid mania,” imperialist business practices, and chromolithographic printmaking. Discussion of the transition of this collection into a museum art collection covers its …