Acts of possession : collecting in America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dilworth, Leah
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	Collectors and collecting > United States. Collectors and collecting > Social aspects > United States.

Table of 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.