Starting as a teenager, he gathered a collection of 400 videotapes.
A curator would have gathered a collection of artifacts or pictures into a gallery, and unless the visitor was steeped in art history, he or she would have little idea of why any particular group of objects had been grouped together in the same room, as there was no explanation or interpretation on offer.
He was the invention of Frederick E. Fox, class of 1939, who did indeed write to candy companies as a Princeton freshman and gathered a collection of wrappers.
For those who want the genuine article without the hassle of combing through flea markets, Clive Kandel, a specialist in vintage designer jewelry, has gathered a collection of one-of-a-kind costume brooches by Weis, near left, Kenneth Jay Lane, Ciner, Miriam Haskell and others (from $250 at Saks Fifth Avenue).
Meijaard and his wife, Rona Dennis, an independent remote sensing scientist, gathered a collection of photos of Rheithrosciurus, including ones from colleagues.
A few years on, the project has gathered a collection of broadsides, 133 of which have been digitised by the Florida Atlantic University Libraries to be donated to the National Library and Archive of Iraq.
The photographer, who was raised in East L.A. and now lives in Boyle Heights, has gathered a collection of more than a hundred of these images in the new, limited edition artist book "Mas Aca" (Over Here) — which features an introductory essay from fellow artist Harry Gamboa, one of the founders of the collective Asco.
The Tokyo embassy has gathered a collection of American Abstract Expressionist painting, a simple expression of taste.
After Dr Seuss died in 1991, his widow, Audrey Geisel, gathered a collection of sketches and drafts into a box and forgot about them.
On Tuesday, Huntington-Ingalls, the company building the US Navy's new $13 billion aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, gathered a collection of executives, contractors, and media to a shipyard outside Norfolk, Virginia on less than a day's notice.
Inside Room 201, the administration has gathered a collection of its own Congressional lobbyists, policy specialists and experts from an alphabet soup of the agencies that will have to put the immigration legislation into effect if it passes.
