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New information: 4/2010 To my knowledge the aforementioned "Traitorous Eight" (a term I have never heard) was originally known as the "Shockley Seven, being seven of the brightest physics minds in the country and hand chosen for their dedication to science by Mr. Shockley personally. Jay Last studied in the 1950s at MIT and is credited with helping to develop transistor and printed circuit technologies in the earliest days of modern computing. He has also been a patron of the arts throughout his life. He personally amassed one of the great collections of American printing and lithography and spent over twenty years traveling America researching one of the leading books about the subject titled "The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography" (ISBN# 0-914589-11-3 published in 2005 in his own imprint Hillcrest Press, Inc.) He has also co-authored books with Gordon McClelland about Fruit Crate label art and printing, and is, along with Thomas P. "Pat" Jacobsen a leading author and collector in the field of West Coast lithography and label art collecting. His collections are now housed at the Huntington Library in Southern California. An announcement for his recent exhibition is quoted below from the Huntington website:

"The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection

Oct. 17, 2009–Feb. 22, 2010 Boone Gallery

When a young German playwright named Alois Senefelder developed a new printmaking process in the 1790s, little did he know that his discovery would start a communication revolution. Lithography, or flat-surface printing, transformed the exchange of information and the behavior of everyday life for the next century and beyond. This technique brought art, literature, music, and science to the masses; gave rise to product advertising and consumer culture; educated a growing middle class; and turned commercial printing from a craft into an industry. Lithography also colorized a predominantly black-and-white print world.

The Color Explosion presents more than 200 examples of 19th-century American lithography from The Huntington’s Jay T. Last Collection of Lithographic and Social History. Advertising posters, art prints, calendars, certificates, children’s books, color-plate illustrations, historical views, product labels, sales catalogs, sheet music, toys & games, and trade cards are just some of the artifacts that will be included in this comprehensive exhibition."

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