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Book The Salton Collection  Renaissance   Baroque Medals   Plaquettes

Download or read book The Salton Collection Renaissance Baroque Medals Plaquettes written by Mark M. Salton and published by Brunswick, Me. : Bowdoin College Museum of Art. This book was released on 1969 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book K  nker Auction 362  The Origins of the German Coin Trade  Brochure on the Fate of the Hamburger and Schlessinger Families

Download or read book K nker Auction 362 The Origins of the German Coin Trade Brochure on the Fate of the Hamburger and Schlessinger Families written by Dr. Ursula Kampmann and published by Numismatischer Verlag Künker. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of the sale of the Salton Collection, auction house Künker and Stack’s Bowers Galleries entrusted the historian Ursula Kampmann with the task of investigating the history of the Hamburger-Schlessinger dynasty of coin dealers. Her findings revolutionize what we know about the German coin trade. On 22 March 2022, the second part of the Lottie and Mark Salton Collection will be auctioned off by auction house Künker in Osnabrück. It contains spectacular coins that are all the more spectacular due to one fact: before he emigrated to the United States of America in 1946, Mark Salton bore the name Max Schlessinger. He was the son of Felix Schlessinger, who ran one of the most famous German coin shops in Berlin in the late 1920s. The Historical Sources Three documents that had hitherto been unknown to most scholars came to light during the investigation of the history of the Hamburger and Schlessinger families. These documents shed a completely new light on the fate of this dynasty of coin dealers. In addition, a fourth document was found that had not been thoroughly evaluated before: Four members of the family left their memoirs to posterity: · Adolph Hamburger (1841-1919), brother of the company founder Leo Hamburger the Elder (1836-1902) · Röschen Schlessinger (1844-1932), sister of Leo Hamburger the Younger, partner of the L. & L. Hamburger coin dealership (1846-1929), and mother of Felix Schlessinger (1879-1944) · Sophie Diamant (1880-1972), sister of Felix Schlessinger · Mark Salton resp. Max Schlessinger (1914-2005) Thanks to these memoirs, the history of the Hamburger-Schlessinger dynasty can be traced back to a court factor called Loeb Hamburger (1761-1835) who lived in the Hanau ghetto. Through the eyes of the family members we experience the emancipation of Jews under Napoleon, the turmoil of the revolution of 1848, the industrialization and the economic upswing of the mid-19th century, the First World War, the hyperinflation of 1923, the Nazis’ rise to power, the persecution and expulsion of Jews until we get to the new beginning in the United States. The Findings Thanks to the analysis of these sources, it was able to gain new insights into the German coin trade prior to the First World War: · For example, the Munich Oberndörffer bank was of utmost importance in the process of establishing the Frankfurt coin trade. · Jewish coin trade in Germany was closely connected due to family ties. Adolph E. Hess probably also promoted the success of his Frankfurt coin dealership by means of a marital connection with a member of the Hamburger family. · Felix Schlessinger was brought into the L. & L. Hamburger coin shop as an heir by his uncle Leo Hamburger the Younger because the only son of the company owner had committed suicide. · The notorious Frankfurt Consortium had not been founded for the sake of making profit, its purpose was to prevent the financial ruin of the coin dealerships involved in it. · Felix Schlessinger founded a new coin shop in Berlin because the L. & L. Hamburger company was virtually bankrupt after the period of hyperinflation. · The actor Heinz Rühmann collected Greek coins of the finest quality and had himself represented at auctions by the Munich art dealer Otto Bernheimer. Added to these fundamental pieces of information, the memoirs provide us with true-to-life scenes of the coin trade that clarify our picture of past auction sales. The well-known historian and numismatist Dr Ursula Kampmann, who has been studying the history of the coin trade for many years, has written an extensive text on the history of the Hamburger-Schlessinger coin dealer dynasty. It is part of a brochure published by Künker in German and English.

Book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Salton Collection  Renaissance   Baroque Medals   Plaquettes

Download or read book The Salton Collection Renaissance Baroque Medals Plaquettes written by Mark M. Salton and published by Brunswick, Me. : Bowdoin College Museum of Art. This book was released on 1969 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greetings from the Salton Sea

Download or read book Greetings from the Salton Sea written by Kim Stringfellow and published by Center for American Places. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea is a man-made catastrophe, redolent with the smell of algae and decomposing fish. Nevertheless, the lake's vast, placid expanses continue to attract birdwatchers, tourists and artists. In Greetings from the Salton Sea, photographer Kim Stringfellow explores the history of California's largest lake from its disastrous beginnings—the "sea" was formed when Colorado River levees broke and spilled into a depression 280 feet below sea level—to its heyday as a desert paradise in the 1950s and its current state as an environmental battleground. Like the 400-plus species of birds that use the lake as a halfway point in their annual migration, developers flocked to the water too: they planted palm trees, built golf courses, and hired showstoppers such as the Beach Boys to perform at area resorts. These days, politicians seek to redirect the lake's only source of replenishment—agricultural runoff from surrounding farms—to water golf courses and green lawns elsewhere. Greetings from the Salton Sea's photographs capture the war among policymakers, environmentalists, developers, and the individuals still living along the lake's shores. As Stringfellow aptly documents, it is a war for water and, ultimately, for existence.

Book Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals

Download or read book Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals written by Elvehjem Art Center and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections

Download or read book Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Retrieval Evaluation

Download or read book Information Retrieval Evaluation written by Donna Harman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation methodologies in use today. The retrieval community has been extremely fortunate to have such a well-grounded evaluation paradigm during a period when most of the human language technologies were just developing. This lecture has the goal of explaining where these evaluation methodologies came from and how they have continued to adapt to the vastly changed environment in the search engine world today. The lecture starts with a discussion of the early evaluation of information retrieval systems, starting with the Cranfield testing in the early 1960s, continuing with the Lancaster "user" study for MEDLARS, and presenting the various test collection investigations by the SMART project and by groups in Britain. The emphasis in this chapter is on the how and the why of the various methodologies developed. The second chapter covers the more recent "batch" evaluations, examining the methodologies used in the various open evaluation campaigns such as TREC, NTCIR (emphasis on Asian languages), CLEF (emphasis on European languages), INEX (emphasis on semi-structured data), etc. Here again the focus is on the how and why, and in particular on the evolving of the older evaluation methodologies to handle new information access techniques. This includes how the test collection techniques were modified and how the metrics were changed to better reflect operational environments. The final chapters look at evaluation issues in user studies -- the interactive part of information retrieval, including a look at the search log studies mainly done by the commercial search engines. Here the goal is to show, via case studies, how the high-level issues of experimental design affect the final evaluations. Table of Contents: Introduction and Early History / "Batch" Evaluation Since 1992 / Interactive Evaluation / Conclusion

Book Water resources Investigations Report

Download or read book Water resources Investigations Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documentation of a Computer Program  Streamlink  to Represent Direct flow Connections in a Coupled Ground water and Surface water Model

Download or read book Documentation of a Computer Program Streamlink to Represent Direct flow Connections in a Coupled Ground water and Surface water Model written by Eric D. Swain and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Soft Computing

Download or read book Advances in Soft Computing written by Grigori Sidorov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that models the human ability of reasoning, usage of human language and organization of knowledge, solving problems and practically all other human intellectual abilities. Usually it is characterized by the application of heuristic methods because in the majority of cases there is no exact solution to this kind of problem. Soft computing can be viewed as a branch of AI that deals with the problems that explicitly contain incomplete or complex information, or are known to be impossible for direct computation, i.e., these are the same problems as in AI but viewed from the perspective of their computation. The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), a yearly international conference series organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), is a major international AI forum and the main event in the academic life of the country’s growing AI community. In 2010, SMIA celebrated 10 years of activity related to the organization of MICAI as is represented in its slogan “Ten years on the road with AI”. MICAI conferences traditionally publish high-quality papers in all areas of artificial intelligence and its applications. The proceedings of the previous MICAI events were also published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, vols. 1793, 2313, 2972, 3789, 4293, 4827, 5317, and 5845. Since its foundation in 2000, the conference has been growing in popularity and improving in quality.

Book Birds of the Salton Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Patten
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2003-08-19
  • ISBN : 0520929446
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Birds of the Salton Sea written by Michael Patten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area. Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors’ species accounts discuss each bird’s abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region’s fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America.

Book Report of the Committee  adopted at the fourth Annual Meeting     With the list of donors  etc

Download or read book Report of the Committee adopted at the fourth Annual Meeting With the list of donors etc written by Church Education Society (Church of England) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Download or read book Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.

Book A Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

Download or read book A Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research written by Borthwick Institute of Historical Research and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 1973 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Final Environmental Impact Report  Environmental Impact Statement  Imperial Irrigation District Water Conservation and Transfer Project

Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Report Environmental Impact Statement Imperial Irrigation District Water Conservation and Transfer Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: