Comments on: Newly on View: Herald Tribune Owls /2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:30:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: RD Wolff /2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/comment-page-1/#comment-18699 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 06:29:50 +0000 /bloggers/2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/#comment-18699 By the way, some background on these owls:

They were cast in France in 1894, James Gordon Bennett oversaw the designing and casting of the groups which was displayed at the Paris salon in 1894 before being brought to this country and installed on the Herald building at a cost of $200,000

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By: RD Wolff /2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/comment-page-1/#comment-18698 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 04:44:56 +0000 /bloggers/2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/#comment-18698 Wondering what happened to the pair of owls that were up on the portico of NYU’s Shimkin Hall on 4th street? they were up there for many years and now suddenly they are GONE according to Google street view.

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By: Richard /2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:21:47 +0000 /bloggers/2007/12/14/newly-on-view-herald-tribune-owls/#comment-213 Hey, Jakki —

This is just a note to say I liked this post so much I decided to mimic it in my own way at our blog over here at the IMA.

Check it out:
http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2008/04/30/what-i-did-last-summer-lots-of-pictures-plus-a-request-for-information-and-a-number-of-side-notes/

Thanks!
Richard

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