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Old December 19th 09, 03:38 PM posted to rec.collecting,alt.collecting
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Wall Street Journal

"An Infinity of Things - How Sir Henry Wellcome
Collected the World" by Frances Larson (Amazon.com:
http://xrl.us/Infin )

Henry Wellcome's collecting started innocently enough:
At Sotheby's December 1898 sale of William Morris's
library, Wellcome bought books on architecture,
textiles, printing, bibliography and design. The books
were on subjects of particular interest to Wellcome,
the cofounder, with Silas Burroughs, of the Burroughs
Wellcome & Co. pharmaceutical empire. But soon Wellcome
was casting a wider net, acquiring decorative vases,
art sculpture, rugs, Native American artifacts and
naval memorabilia.

By the 1920s the tens of thousands of objects Wellcome
had collected were overflowing in several houses and
warehouses, an old laundry complex, a former stable, a
converted department store and even parts of a
Burroughs Wellcome factory. He had also developed
another focus for his collecting: chronicling the
history of medicine and health care all over the world
and from the beginning of time. As Frances Larson
writes in "An Infinity of Things," her absorbing
account of how the American-born, London-based
industrialist "collected the world," objects were
"close packed up to the ceiling" and choked the
hallways in a Wellcome warehouse. Spears that Wellcome
had collected were stacked across roof rafters. "Only
narrow gangways were left between the walls of packing
cases. Eventually even these alleys were filled."...

Continued: http://xrl.us/Infini



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