Show Are On Display In The j Art Exhibits y j i o Co College Center Purpose Multi-Purpose Room j fi Board Fine Arts and Lectures Corn Com Committee ommittee om- om Center and C College Activities The College Association of College Unions two exhibits its on loan from the is presenting Past and acid from the Pas Greetings International The rne two exhibits are Center Multipurpose Multipurpose Multi Multi- in the College both will remain on display Birds of Prey and March purpose Room through of 20 exhibit consists of a collection FROM 1 THE PAST The GREETINGS from 1898 to 1910 the turn of the century dating from cards post into its own in the United States in inthe it know came card as we Th The picture po post t the after souvenir views of the Worlds World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago was passed in 1889 to allow allO commercial corn com Legislation issued the government by were the card issues and pest post the same postal rates as s gov government mercial cards blossomed Most early color post cards were printed in Germany business time but there at the technology lithographic printing of the superior because in France and the United States soon joined the industry companies for their pictorial int interest rest since legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- mainly sent 0 Until the Until cards were written messages on the blank side wasn't waso passed until that year allowing tion characteristic of a 1 exhibition are represented in the cards Several of the post holiday card the industry in today's post postcard of post card that is produced not type Years Year's New and even Thank Thanksgiving giving Christmas card Valentines greeting in this format and probably set the stage stag for the cards were popular which has since developed in Tn this country card industry tremendous greeting hobby until the first World War cards was a popular Collecting picture post difficult to maintain but with fell off and imports were when foreign production card albums in trunks and attics a modest the rediscovery of many old post revival in c collecting is underway offset lithographs of birds of of 16 The BIRDS OF PREY exhibit consists hawks eagles and owls prey studied at the University of Maine lain at 0 David Lewis a Maine native The artist of Portland the Boston Museum School and completed his Masters Art deg degree ee at East Carolina his University mothers mother's interest in 1981 in art by his childhood on Mt l He was influenced by this country and abroad His in Island Maine and by later late travel Desert the textural qualities of the interest in birds of prey as subjects stems from and the plumage and powerful predatory nature as well as the special eyes anthropomorphic capacity of the birds of prey 0 r 0 |