The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 31, August 1, 2004, Article 12

DICKESON PANORAMA ON EXHIBIT

  NBS President Pete Smith writes: "Last night (7-29-04) I
  visited the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. What drew me was
  their exhibition "Currents of Change / Art and Life Along the
  Mississippi River, 1851-1861."  A highlight was a panel from
  John J. Egan's Mississippi panorama, "The Monumental
  Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley."  They also had a video
  screen where a  viewer could scroll through the entire
  panorama, some 430 feet long.

  This panorama was used as a backdrop for Professor
  Montroville Wilson Dickeson who toured and lectured before
  the Civil War. He is known to bibliophiles for the first
  American numismatic encyclopaedia published in 1858.

  For me, seeing the Dickeson / Egan panorama was as exciting
  as seeing four 1913 Liberty nickels. (But not as exciting as
  seeing the fifth.) Also on exhibit was a large marble of
  Hiawatha by Augustus Saint Gaudens, another numismatic
  connection. The exhibit has been extended into October."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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