Shinn
Shinn names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Shinn CHARLES HOWARD, an American forester
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES HOWARD, an American forester, born in Austin, Tex., in 1852. He was educated at the University of California, and Johns Hopkins University. From 1879 to 1889 he taught school and engaged in newspaper and magazine work in San Francisco, Baltimore, and New York. In 1902 he became agent and expert of the United States Bureau of Forestry, and successively served as head forest ranger, Department the of Interior; supervisor of the Sierra National Forest, California; and forest examiner, district five. He was a member of various domestic and foreign arboricultural and horticultural societies. He published, besides many papers, reports, articles, and monographs on forestry, social science, and literary topics, "Land Laws of Mining Districts" (1884); '; "Mining Camps" (1885); "Co-operation on the Pacific Coast" (1888); "Story of a Mine" ( 1890). He also acted as associate editor of Bailey's Standard Cyclopædia of American Horticulture" (6 volumes).
Shinn EVERETT, an American artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EVERETT, an American artist, born in Woodstown, N. J., in 1873. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Ar Arts, Philadelphia, and in Paris, where he was influenced chiefly by Degas. At first devoting himself to working in pastel colors, he later gained rapid recognition for his mural paintings and magazine illustrations. The most important of the former are to be found in the Trenton, N. J., city hall, in several New York City theaters, and in numerous private residences. He was a freor quent exhibitor in general exhibitions, and . has also, at various times, held exh exhibitions of his own work exclusively.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were still living and working when Collier's wrote in 1921, and both careers have since closed. Everett Shinn, described only as a muralist and magazine illustrator, is now placed firmly among The Eight, the group that exhibited together at New York's Macbeth Gallery in 1908 and became known as the Ashcan School; he went on to design sets for the movies and died in 1953. Charles Howard Shinn died in 1924, and it is not his forestry reports but his 1885 book "Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government" that is still read and cited by historians of the West. Modern reference works also give Everett Shinn's birth year as 1876 rather than the 1873 printed here.
Written for this edition, 2026.