Anna Williams Inspires the 1878 Liberty Silver Dollar
The Philadelphia mint designer Ige Morgan selected Anna Williams a Quaker City teacher as the model for the Goddess of Liberty on the 1878 silver dollar. After five sittings, Williams posed reluctantly but the resulting obverse and reverse design became famed as the finest coin from the Philadelphia mint.
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Anna Williams
Quaker City
United States
Treasury
Royal Mint
England
Philadelphia
Ige Morgan
Morgan
Liberty
Mint
Anna Wil
Liams
Miss Liberty
Anna
Miss Williams
Synagogue Prayer Schedules Across Three Temples in City
Beth Tephilah at 82 River St led by Rabbi Cohen begins 7:30 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Saturday with daily services at 6:45 a.m. and 7:20 p.m. Temple Berith Sholom at 167 8rd St led by Rabbi Gutmann has Friday eve services at 5:30 p.m. Temple Beth El at 1713 5th Ave with Friday 8:15 p.m. services and Saturday 9:15 a.m. plus Torah readings at 10 a.m. Daily services 7:45 a.m. Sundays and holidays 9 a.m.
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Beth Tephilah Synagogue
River St
Jacob S. Cohen
Berith Sholom
8Rd St
Julius K. Gutmann
D.D
Gutmann
Temple Beth el
5Th Ave
Herman L. Horowitz
Pirkay Avot
Horowitz
Six-State Library System Awarded Grant for Center
The New England Board of Higher Education received a 45860 grant to design a six state cataloging and processing center for university libraries. The regional center will provide computer processing to avoid duplication of acquisition cataloging and book processing. The grant comes from the Council on Library Resources in Washington DC.
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Winchester
Mass
New England Board of Higher Education
Council On Library Resources
Washington, D.C
Yale Professor Becomes President of New England Conservatory
Guenther Schuller of Yale University accepts the presidency of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston marking a leadership change at the historic institution.
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Boston
Guenther Schuller
Yale University
New England Conservatory of Music
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Temple Beth
Conservatory Head
Young Casuals
Jeiland
Denby’s
Melton Coachman
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