Hattie Carnegie: 20th Century Fashion Entrepreneur

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“Hattie Carnegie Originals from hat to hem: Under a whirlwind brimmer of licorice straw, a costume of beauty patches on sugar white silk-and-cotton, ear clips of chunky jet, and the aura of Carnegie Four Winds Cologne. (Costume only at Hattie Carnegie Ready to Wear Salons) 42 East 49th Street, New York”

By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times ...

What, If Anything, Is Your Old Technology Worth?

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By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Consumers born after 1980 have no memory of a world without cellphones, home computers, or personal gaming devices. The speed from introduction to mass adoption of ...

Technological Art: The New Design Element

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By Judy Weaver Gonyeau, managing editor Patents, blueprints, scientific diagrams, and curious drawings reveal inventions and discoveries coming into its own art form in offices, businesses, and homes. Collectors are ...

Riding the Technology Wave: My Front-Row Seat to the Rise of Cellular

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Motorola Engineer Martin Cooper, inventor of the world’s first portable cellular telephone.

By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Fifty years ago this past April 3, 2023, Motorola engineer Martin (Marty) Cooper placed a phone call on a street in downtown New York City to ...

Identifying Glass In The Age of The Internet

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Garage Sale find. No marks, c. 1900. Not shown in the Baccarat catalog of the era. Identified as Baccarat Bambous Tors oval inkwell.

By Glass Specialist Peter Wade It’s a beautiful, sunny day and you decide to go out for a ride and stop by an estate sale. You find a lovely piece ...

The Tiffany Girls: Under the Glass Ceiling

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Clara Driscoll (top row, far left) and her “Tiffany Girls” were unsung heroes at Tiffany Studios. Photo: The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Art

By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher Glassmaking has historically been a man’s trade. This can be attributed to the ability of boys to access education, handle intricate scientific chemical demands of creating ...

Artist Josh Simpson Configuring Glass

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Blue Megaplanet, 1993, 5.25” dia. photo: Lewis Legbreaker

An Interview by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Our Earth, which seems so limitless, is really only a tiny little blue marble floating in the black void of space. Our planet, ...

Paul R. Williams: Designer for Iconic Hollywood

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Paul Revere Williams was part of the team that designed the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport.

by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor Imagine being the only black child in your school who is striving to enter the field of architecture. You have no parents to support you, ...

Interviewing Angela Lansbury

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How TV fans will always remember her: Angela Lansbury as “Jessica Fletcher.” The hit series Murder, She Wrote ran for 12 seasons, and earned Angela 12 Emmy nominations (although she never won!).

By Donald-Brian Johnson In 1984, on her way to the West Coast to begin filming the first season of the soon-to-be-a-hit TV show Murder, She Wrote, Angela Lansbury (1925-2022) stopped ...

Movie Posters: Collecting Trends and the Current Market

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Dracula style F one-sheet (photo courtesy Heritage Auctions)

By Amanda Sheriff, Gemstone Publishing Collecting movie posters is plain and simply a fun hobby that expresses the love for a film and appreciation for art. From an advertising standpoint, ...

Film Memorabilia: The Reel Thing

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Projector manufacturers like Richmond Research Corp. produced relatively inexpensive standard 8mm units like this model 600 during the 1950s and 1960s.

By Douglas R. Kelly The original props. The one-sheet posters. The lobby cards. The sculptures and statues and autographed photos of the stars of the cinema. All of these are ...

Edith Head: Designing A Hollywood Legend

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By Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher “Accentuate the positive and camouflage the rest,” … words legendary designer Edith Head lived by. At barely five feet tall, Hollywood Costume Designer Edith Head (October ...

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