Talk:United States Sesquicentennial coinage

Little question
To User:Wehwalt:

Is me again.

"The resultant plaster models, made by Sinnock, were submitted to the Commission on March 13, 1926."

Which commission is this, Fine Arts Commission or National Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commission?--Jarodalien (talk) 14:02, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

And one more: "No further gold commemoratives, of any denomination, would be issued by the Mint Bureau until 1984." What happened at 1984?--Jarodalien (talk) 16:04, 26 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Fixed in both case. Thank you for your careful read.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:41, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Translation done, thank you for follow up so soon.--Jarodalien (talk) 17:10, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Spoken Wikipedia
Hello editors. My wife frequently suffers from insomnia, and one thing we've discovered is that reading from Wikipedia is an effective way of. . . boring her to sleep. To that end, I have been reading Wikipedia articles to her when she needs it and I've got a computer handy. Just after I finished reading List of common misconceptions, I had the idea that I could help out the community by recording the reading of the article, and contributing to the WP:SPEAK project. I plan on recording this article, soon (probably the next time she needs some help sleeping and I've got a computer). Don't expect an amazing reading, but it'll be something. I'm working under the assumption that something is better than nothing. McKay (talk) 07:53, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Still, it is very nice of you to do that. Not everyone is able to use the printed page (so to speak), and you'll do a better job than Siri!  Kudos to you.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:03, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Siri's grandchild will be better than this in a decade or so. McKay (talk) 04:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * It is done. It is not great, but having this one is better than nothing I presume. McKay (talk) 04:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Very much so. Thank you.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:12, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Is H. P. Caemmerer the same as Arno B. Cammerer?
Mentioned is H. P. Caemmerer, secretary of the Commission of Fine Arts. Is that the same as Arno B. Cammerer, former "executive secretary of the Fine Arts Commission"? --Trilotat (talk) 12:56, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It doesn't appear so. I'm looking at the 1926-1929 CFA report via Congressional ProQuest, and if. H.P. Caemmerer is listed as secretary since 1922,--Wehwalt (talk) 14:39, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

reference to John Frederick Lewis
Would a wikilink to John Frederick Lewis be appropriate here, maybe also a citation? Note, there is no mention of Lewis' submission of the sketches or Sinnock's adaptation of those sketches in the Lewis article. --Trilotat (talk) 13:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure, go ahead. Must have missed that there was an article. I don't have any opinion on what should be in the Lewis article.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:22, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I am unlinking the Orientalist English painter John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) and referencing the American attorney and arts patron who was also named John Frederick Lewis (1860–1932) and died six years after the 1926 Sesquicentennial. He has no Wikipedia entry, but his vital dates and other details are briefly delineated here (bottom entry) &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 17:39, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

"Private advertising"
Does it really count as private advertising if Pass and Stow are defunct? Brutannica (talk) 14:31, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That's the way the source described it. The Dolley Madison silver dollar, a modern commemorative, has the Tiffany's logo on it (very small).--Wehwalt (talk) 14:39, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Was John Frederick Lewis an artist?
I am editing the following sentence, "Lewis, an attorney and artist, was president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts", so that it specifies, "Lewis, who served as president of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 until his death in 1932, was known as a numismatist, but not as an artist." This description of Lewis is supported by the cited quote from Q. David Bowers' Commemorative Coins of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia, "John Frederick Lewis, born in Philadelphia on September 10, 1860, was known as a patron of the arts, not as an artist, but he did create the design for a commemorative coin." The reference to him as an artist may have resulted from confusion with the same-named English Orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis who died in 1876. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 16:53, 5 July 2016 (UTC)