The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, is a museum dedicated to British and American fine and decorative arts from 1670-1840, located in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Entrance, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at the Public Hospital of 1773
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William Roy DeWitt Wallace, publishing as DeWitt Wallace, was an American magazine publisher.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
…in Williamsburg, Virginia. Situated just outside the historic boundary of Colonial Williamsburg, DWDAM was founded with an initial 1982 donation by DeWitt Wallace (1889–1981) and his wife Lila Bell Acheson Wallace (1889–1984) — co-founders of Reader's Digest. The Wallaces donated $12 million to finance reconstruction…
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Room 108 of the New York Public Library, now known as the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, holds current unbound issues of 68 popular periodical titles and 22 domestic and foreign newspapers. In the 1920s DeWitt Wallace spent countless hours in this room, reading and condensing articles from the Library's collection. In 1983, the room's restoration was made possible by a gift from the Wallace Fund, established by DeWitt Wallace.