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Long-Lost Artifact Reappears at CornellThanks to the digital photo of a missing artifact posted earlier this year on Cornell University Library’s Web site, visitors to the library can now see the real thing: a 13th-century stone corbel from Troyes Cathedral in France, originally acquired in 1886 by the university’s first president Andrew Dickson White, that had disappeared when the school’s architectural museum closed in 1910. In February, a university engineer visiting the library’s division of rare and manuscript collections, learned about the corbel mystery from a staff member. Curious, he looked at the photo online and felt certain he’d seen it in a colleague’s garden. Sure enough, his friend looked at the photo and agreed. Apparently the corbel was kept in another Cornell employee’s office for about 30 years; when that employee retired in 1990, he gave it to his successor, who kept the unmarked corbel until he learned its true identity and immediately returned it to the school. Eventually the corbel will be transferred to a permanent home in the university’s museum of art. Posted July 2, 2001. |
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