Useful objects : museums, science, and literature in nineteenth-century America /
"Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America explores the debates that surrounded the development of American museums during the nineteenth century. Throughout this period, museums included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to an...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Circulating objects : loss and decay in the American Philosophical Society's cabinet
- Shadowed silhouettes : writing indigenous resistance in early American museums
- American claimants : overwhelming collections and visitor impressions at the British Museum
- Novel inventions : nation and spectacle in the U.S. Patent Office gallery
- Specimen collectors : preservation and classification at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.