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June 1, 1876
Wilmington Daily Commercial
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
What is this article about?
Outcry arose when Austrian Commissioners closed their Centennial Art Gallery department claiming visitor damage to pictures, but only minor injuries occurred during unpacking, rendering complaints about sight-seers unfounded.
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Not a little outcry arose, a week or two ago, when the Austrian Commissioners at the Centennial closed their department in the Art Gallery and asserted that some of their pictures had been injured by visitors. It now seems that only one or two trifling injuries have been done to any of the paintings, and those not by visitors at all but in unpacking. The diatribes, therefore, on the vandalism of sight-seers, and the descriptions of their habits of poking the pictures with their umbrellas, and tapping the statues to see whether they are marble or plaster, &c., &c., are largely thrown away—splenetic complaints wasted on the winds.
What sub-type of article is it?
Celebration
Social Event
What keywords are associated?
Centennial
Austrian Commissioners
Art Gallery
Picture Damage
Visitor Outcry
What entities or persons were involved?
Austrian Commissioners
Where did it happen?
Centennial Art Gallery
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Centennial Art Gallery
Event Date
A Week Or Two Ago
Key Persons
Austrian Commissioners
Outcome
only one or two trifling injuries to paintings from unpacking, not by visitors; complaints about sight-seers unfounded
Event Details
Outcry when Austrian Commissioners closed their department asserting visitor injuries to pictures; now clarified as minor unpacking damage, wasting diatribes on visitor vandalism