At the turn of the last century, when Jersey City was establishing itself as a metropolitan hub, a library and museum were seen as essential to the city and collections were assembled that represented life there.
His influence was so great that the period between about 1900 and about 1940, during which great American private collections were assembled by Andrew W. Mellon, Henry E. Huntington, Henry Clay Frick, S.H. Kress, John Pierpont Morgan, and others, has often been called "the age of Duveen".
Throughout Europe and in North America, several fine private collections were assembled, many of which were eventually to become the core of today's great national and state libraries for this was also the period that saw the establishment of new national and university collections.
The three major Qatari national collections were assembled by the emir's cousins Sheik Hassan al-Thani and Sheik Saud al-Thani, who began collecting in the 1980s, when art was still viewed as dubious, even unmanly, among the country's elites.
In the early seventh century an augmented version of the Dionysian conciliar and decretal collections was assembled in Bobbio, in northern Italy.
A set of nested core collections were assembled to represent the bulk of the diversity contained in our collection of 346 genotypes.
The rose window showing the ascension of Jesus is destined, with several others, for St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, where Carmen R. Croce, the curator of the university collections, is assembling stained glass as the basis of a future gallery.
The core of the collection was assembled in 1756.
Most of the collection was assembled by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Baroness Batsheva's grandfather, in the 19th century.
The collection was assembled by Seeger, a known collector who died in 2011.
This collection was assembled by Stanley Salzman, his wife, Sue, & a lawyer friend, Banjamin Bejan.
