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Acts of possession : collecting in America / edited by Leah Dilworth.
Penn Museum Library AM303 .A28 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collectors and collecting--United States.
- Collectors and collecting.
- Collectors and collecting--Social aspects--United States.
- Collectors and collecting--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- An American cabinet of curiosities : Thomas Jefferson's "Indian Hall" at Monticello / Joyce Henri Robinson
- "And a little child shall lead them" : American children's cabinets of curiosities / Shirley Teresa Wajda
- Dreaming in commerce : advertising trade card scrapbooks / Ellen Gruber Garvey
- Collecting the nation : visions of nationalism in two Civil War-era photograph albums / Andrea L. Volpe
- The curious cabinet of Dr. Morton / Ann Fabian
- Collecting Mr. Ayer's narrative / Carolyn Kastner
- En/gendering the Whitney's collection of American art / Evelyn C. Hankins
- Small mercies : Colleen Moore's doll house and the National Charity Tour / Leslie Paris
- Tradition and the individual memory : the case of Christian C. Sanderson / Teresa Barnett
- All buy our selves at household auctions / Lisa A. Long
- American icons : photographs / by Carrie Mae Weems
- Exhibiting Nazi artifacts and challenging traditional museum culture : a conversation with Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. / Gregory Maertz
- The serial killer as collector / Sara Knox.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 081353271X
- 0813532728
- OCLC:
- 50731042
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