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Acts of possession : collecting in America

Title
Acts of possession : collecting in America / edited by Leah Dilworth.
ISBN
081353271X (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813532728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
Physical Description
vii, 322 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2003
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.
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