Collecting the globe : the Salem East India Marine Society Museum / George H. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, George H., author.

Series:

Public history in historical perspective.

Public history in historical perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salem East India Marine Society Museum.

East-India Marine Society of Salem.

Maritime museums--Massachusetts--Salem.

Maritime museums.

Shipping--Massachusetts--Salem--History.

Shipping.

Salem (Mass.)--History, Naval.

Salem (Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Salem East India Marine Society Museum

Place of Publication:

Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

Summary:

The East India Marine Society Museum was one of the most influential collecting institutions in nineteenth-century America.From 1799 to 1867, when Salem, Massachusetts, was a premier American port and launching pad for international trade, the museum's collection developed at a nexus of global exchange, with donations of artwork, crafts, and.

Contents:

"A cabinet, that every mariner may possess the history of the world"

Origins

"May resources from the ambition of its members continue to accomplish its design"

A society of collectors

"Gathered, with cost and pains, from every clime"

A museum built by mariners, the public, and the global networks of nineteenth-century maritime trade

Exhibition and display

Visitor experiences at the East India Marine Society Museum

"That thus their exploits, on the ocean wave, from age to age might still be handed down"

A continuing legacy of inspiration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-714-5

OCLC:

1142098897