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| Jan 1934 | 1st Wilmington Salon of Photography held at Wilmington library under auspices of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts. 182 prints from all over U.S., including Hawaii. |
| 1935 | 2nd Salon, 1st Wilmington International Salon. 172 prints from the U.S., Spain, Canada, Hungary, South Africa, Austria, England, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, and India. |
| 1936 | Each WIEP Juror uses an “electrical scoring device” to score each print, “after having the opportunity to discuss each print with his fellow jurors.”
The same panel of 5 jurors judged the first three salons. No prizes were awarded, and the prints were for sale. |
| 1937 | 4th Salon includes 2 “tricolor photographs” by Cornelia Weston. An ad in the salon catalog introduces Kodak’s “new Kodachrome film.” |
| 1938 | 5th salon comprises 230 prints selected from 1300 entries. Salon now ranks twelfth in the listing of the American Annual of Photography. |
| 1939 | Venue moved to the newly-constructed Delaware Art Center, now the Delaware Art Museum. |
| 1940 | 7th salon first to be judged by a panel that did not include any of the original 5 jurors. |
| 1941 | Entry fee is $ 1, unknown for earlier years. Hand-colored prints not eligible. All accepts are hung under glass. First catalog to include statistics. 1051 entries from 8 foreign countries, including Honolulu. |
| 1942 | “...on the assent of the authors, the proceeds from the sale of prints will be converted to war stamps or bonds, and will be remitted in that form.”
Awards given for the first time; 33 prints being designated as “honor prints.” Due to war, only foreign prints are from Cuba, China, and Mexico. Catalog available for purchase, fifteen cents. |
| 1943 | Tenth WIEP. For reasons unknown, WIEP venue is YMCA lounge this year. Only foreign prints Canadian. Associates list started divided into those designated as “Charter Associates,” and those who became Associates upon the results of the current salon. Charter Associates included DCC members Gottlieb & Hilda Hampfler, Edward T. Howell, and Henry B. Robertson. Charter Associates include 2 foreigners, Belgian Leonard Missone and Hungarian Erno Vadas. |
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