New England collectors and collections / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; Peter Benes, editor ; Jane Montague Benes, associate editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife (29th : 2004 : Deerfield, Mass.)

Contributor:

Benes, Peter.

Benes, Jane Montague.

Series:

Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) ; vol. 29.

Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collectors and collecting--New England--History--19th century.

Collectors and collecting.

History.

New England.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Boston University, [2006]

Contents:

Section I. Forming early collecting institutions (early nineteenth century). "An equal taste for antiquities": Reverend William Bentley and the American Antiquarian Society / Thomas Knoles

"A few monstrous great snakes": Daniel Bowen and the Columbian Museum, 1789-1816 / Peter Benes

Ethan Allen Greenwood: museum collector and proprietor / Georgia B. Barnhill. Section II. Forming early collecting institutions (mid and late nineteenth century). A family enterprise: collecting Deerfield's past / Donald R. Friary

"This quaint Abbotsford-like residence": Indian Hill, West Newbury, Massachusetts / Jane C. Nylander. Section III. Specialty collectors: china and furniture. "Bought...of nobody for almost nothing": Anne Allen Ives and china collecting in nineteenth-century New England / Thomas S. Michie

Hartford's role in the origins of antiques collecting in America / William N. Hosley. Section IV. Specialty collectors: fauna and American labor history. Fur into feathers: Manly Hardy and his collection of North American birds / William B. Krohn and Marilyn R. Massaro

Labor artifacts / Scott Molloy. Section V. New England collectors abroad. The Wallis Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum: putting a nineteenth-century travel collection in cultural context / Christina Hellmich. Section VI. Motivation, collection theory, ethnicity. Colonial relics, nativism, and the DAR Loan Exhibition of 1892 / Robert P. Emlen

Sacred relics in the cause of liberty: a Civil War memorial cabinet and the Victorian logic of collecting / Tamara Plakins Thornton

History, memory, and the appropriation of the American Indian past: a family affair / Judy Kertesz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217).

OCLC:

76937839