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    Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store...
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  • S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of five and dime retail department stores in the United States established by Samuel Henry Kress. It...
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  • Muscogee County, Georgia Kress, Virginia Samuel H. Kress, a businessman, founder of the organizations in this section S. H. Kress & Co., a former chain of...
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    Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery in 1882, from whom it was bought by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1954, which deposited it in Washington D.C.'s National...
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    and sculptures from Samuel H. Kress, a native of nearby Cherryville, Pennsylvania, brought the museum to a new level. The Kress gift served to encourage...
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    the same title some time between 1775 and 1780, which is held in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Eighteenth-century engravings were produced of both paintings...
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    Paul Hayes Tucker (category Articles with hCards)
    UMass Boston Faculty/Staff Union Grant, 1981 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, 1976–1977 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Travel Grant, 1975, 1976 Toledo...
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    painting by the Italian artist Annibale Carracci which is part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. It was painted...
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    including work from the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Renaissance and Baroque art. This wing was built specifically to house the Kress Collection after Lowe...
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  • Probably 19th ct. as first suggested by Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian, Oxford 1977, p. 16–19...
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    handsome Portrait of a Young Woman with a Scorpion Chain now in the Samuel H. Kress Collection of the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC has been reattributed...
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    now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection. It was commissioned by Marchese Giacomo Massimiliano Doria...
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    conservation at Pompeii with funding from American Express and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The Schola Armatorum ('House of the Gladiators') collapsed...
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    Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (category Articles with hCards)
    variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Some...
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  • Conference Travel Grants International Member Conference Travel Grants Samuel H. Kress Foundation CAA Conference Travel Fellowship for International Scholars...
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    received a $15,000 grant to pay for preliminary research from the Samuel H. Kress European Preservation Program, part of the World Monuments Fund. The...
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    Florence, ca 1510 "National Gallery of Art: Tabernacle frames from the Samuel H. Kress collection". Archived from the original on 2009-10-06. Retrieved 2009-07-24...
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    professorship will run for four years through Spring 2016. Samuel H. Kress Lecture The Samuel H. Kress Lecture is delivered annually by a prominent scholar...
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    who was killed in a boating accident. The museum also includes the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European works from the 14th to 19th centuries and the...
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    by Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi. Contini-Bonacossi sold it to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in 1948. It was given to its present owner in 1952. Madonna...
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    Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Vol. 4. Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. p. 377....
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    Blaffer, Dominique de Menil and Alice N. Hanzsen as well as that of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Augmented by museum purchases, the permanent collection...
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    Jan Hus (category Articles with hCards)
    Schaff 1953, pp. 415–420. Herzog, Johann Jakob; Hauck, Albert; Jackson, Samuel Macauley; Sherman, Charles Colebrook; Gilmore, George William (1909). The...
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  • Prize awarded by the American Historical Association. Smith was a Samuel H. Kress Paired Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at...
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    Mountain (Frick Collection, New York) Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew (Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) The raising of...
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    Edward Sibbert (category S. H. Kress & Co.)
    25-year career as the head architect at the S. H. Kress & Co. chain of five-and-dimes. His tenure at Kress coincided roughly with the company's peak years...
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    in part, by the gifts of two Italian Renaissance paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The first purpose-built museum on campus was the Morse...
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    (1499) The Adoration of the Shepherds Samuel Henry Kress, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum (1955). The Samuel H. Kress Collection. Philadelphia: Privately...
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  • Wilson Challenge to Conserve Our Heritage, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and Tiffany & Co. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation's relationship with the organization...
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    The money was used to purchase 139 European and American works. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation matched the appropriation with a gift of 71 works, primarily...
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