Category: Collections

Travels with Grace: The Bullfight

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This week’s entry for our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace, continues her trip through Mexico. Today’s post requires a content warning – below Grace describes the bullfight she attended

Travels with Grace: Crossing Into Mexico, 1940

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This week’s entry for our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace, follows along as she heads over the border into Mexico. As mentioned in earlier posts, the language and prejudices

Travels with Grace: Heading South, 1940

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This week we embark on a new journey with the stalwart traveler Grace Hecht. This particular 1940 trip takes us southwards and eventually across the border! To read more of

Travels with Grace: Heading Home, 1929

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Welcome to the next segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace, which covers the final leg of her 1929 European journey. To read more of Grace’s travels, click here. 

Travels with Grace: City of Parks

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today we follow along as Grace heads to Brunswick, Hannover, and Hamburg. To read more of Grace’s travels, click

Travels with Grace: Leisure in Leipzig

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today we follow along as Grace heads to Leipzig and Magdeburg. To read more of Grace’s travels, click

Travels with Grace: The Spas of Bohemia

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today we follow along as Grace visits Marienbad and Karlsbad during the summer of 1929. August 25, 1929

Travels with Grace: On to Prague

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today we follow along as Grace heads into Prague during the summer of 1929. August 18, 1929 Spent

From Galicia to Baltimore

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Part 6 of “Saul Bernstein: Baltimore Artist,” written by Jobi Okin Zink, former JMM collections manager. Originally published in Generations – Winter 2001. Bernstein’s yearning to paint the intellect and

Travels with Grace: Budapest

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Welcome to this week’s segment of our 2019 #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace. Today Grace heads to Budapest during the summer of 1929. August 11, 1929 Sunday, Vienna. We take the