“A Century of Progress” (Chicago, 1933)

110. Enchanted Island

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“The exile from Japan.”

© 1899 by F. Tennyson Neely

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Georg Jensen Silver

Ad Published in Carl Fich’s Copenhagen and Environs: A Guidebook for Tourists (11th ed., 1937)

“With the compliments of Hotel d’Angleterre”

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Objet d’art

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Frans Masereel, “le pain quotidien” (1938)

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K. G., Untitled and Undated

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Hog

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Indignity

On the inset map, the city of Biloxi is spelled “Bilcox.”

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Absurdity

Vladimir Golschmann “arranged” a selection of Chopin’s works and recorded them with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for Columbia Masterworks:

Three Etudes (10/2, 10/6, and 25/9)

Five Preludes opus 28 (nos. 4, 6, 12, 13, and 21)

Two Mazurkas (56/2 and 67/3)

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The LP’s makeweight is Respighi’s suite Rossiniana.

Chopin

Tinted by an Unknown Hand at an Unknown Date

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