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  • Władysław T. Benda

    Władysław T. Benda

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    It is always interesting to learn about someone whose name you do not know but have seen their work. This is because advertising art of the early 20th century was usually unsigned. For many postcard collectors, this is the case with Władysław Teodor Benda. Born in 1873 at Posen, Poland, Benda immigrated to America, became a…

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Anne Ross
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Haussner’s “German-American” restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, was both. William and Frances Haussner, immigrants to America, opened their restaurant in 1926 and soon began collecting art to display in their east Baltimore restaurant. Throughout the better parts of eight decades thousands of hungry art lovers came to dine and gaze at a masterpiece.

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