Showing posts with label Frances Macbeth Glessner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frances Macbeth Glessner. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

A Summer with Birds, Bees and Blossoms - Part II

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INTRODUCTION   Last month, we introduced a delightful paper, A Summer with Birds, Bees and Blossoms , which Frances Glessner prepared fo...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Arnold Arboretum

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Exactly 125 years ago this week, Frances Glessner noted in her journal a trip to the Arnold Arboretum in the Forest Hills section of Bo...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler

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Glessner parlor, photo by James Caulfield On Sunday October 4, 2015, George Radosavljevic, a member of the faculty at the DePaul Univ...
Monday, June 1, 2015

A Benvenuto Cellini dinner

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A favorite photograph of Frances Glessner hangs in her former conservatory, now the Beidler Room at the museum.  The image, the only kn...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Violinist Joseph Joachim

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Frances Glessner made the following notation in her journal for February 10, 1886, while travelling in Boston, “We bought an etching of...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Blind Tom and "The Battle of Manassas"

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The museum is fortunate to possess a large collection of piano music belonging to Frances Glessner.  She was an accomplished pianist by...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Frederik W. Sandberg

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On February 16, we began a discussion of Frances Glessner’s training in making jewelry and silver, including information on her teacher...