Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians, military soldiers, athletes, movie stars, artists, social and religious leaders, scientists, astronauts, and authors. Some collectors may specialize in specific fields (such as Nobel Prize ...
An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically: [1][2] a celebrity's handwritten signature. [2] Autograph collecting is the activity of collecting such autographs. [1]
Autograph has its own indie film channel for hotel guests. [11] The Autograph Collection Short Film Award was created to discover new talent and accelerate the development of independent filmmakers. [12] Furthermore, Autograph provides a complimentary one-week hotel stay to chosen writers as an opportunity to develop their work. [13]
Autograph book. 1888 autograph book. An autograph book (also known as an autograph album, a memory album or friendship album) [1] is a book for collecting the autographs of others. Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems, drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse, and other mementos.
An autograph show (or, alternatively, autograph meeting, autograph signing or autograph convention) is an event where the public, mostly autograph collectors or fans of an attending celebrity, gather to collect autographs from someone famous who attends to meet fans and sign items for them. Some autograph shows are part of a larger, comicon ...
Elaine Madlener. Elaine Madlener (née Wetmore, born 1912) was a manuscript and autograph collector and philanthropist who aided in the development of the National Autograph Collectors Society and the Newberry Library Associates. After graduating from Columbia University, she married Otto Madlener and had two children, Richard and William.
Sports memorabilia. A collection of autographed American football memorabilia. Sports memorabilia are collectables associated with sports, including equipment, trophies, sports cards, autographs, and photographs. A multi-billion-dollar industry has grown around the trading of sports memorabilia. [1][2]
A massively successful promotion for the Upper Deck brand, the triple portrait of Jackson, remains an iconic image among baseball card collectors. [12] At the beginning of the 1992–93 NHL season, Upper Deck made Patrick Roy a spokesperson. Roy was a hockey card collector, with more than 150,000 cards.