Collecting the globe : the Salem East India Marine Society Museum /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020].
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| Series: | Public history in historical perspective.
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Table of 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"
- "Gathered, with cost and pains, from every clime"
- Exhibition and display
- Visitor experiences
- "That thus their exploits, on the ocean wave, from age to age might still be handed down."