Title: Passionate curiosities : tales of collectors & collections from the Kelsey Museum /
Authors: Talalay, Lauren E. 1949-; Root, Margaret Cool,; Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Year: 2015
Subjects: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology History.; Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Catalogs.; Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Egyptology History.; Antiquities; Egyptology; Egypt Antiquities.; Middle East Antiquities; Greece Antiquities.; Rome Antiquities.; Egypt Antiquities Exhibitions.; Egypt; Greece; Middle East; Rome (Empire)
Contents: Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- ch. Two The Backdrop: An Overview of Early American Museums -- ch. Three Francis W. Kelsey: Scholar, Collector, Leader -- A Brief Biography -- Professor Kelsey's Acquisitions -- Birth of an Archaeology Museum in Ann Arbor -- ch. Four What Comes Home from the Field (1924 -- 1963) -- Excavations as Collection-Building Missions -- Pre -- World War II Excavations -- Expeditions of a Different Order: Post -- World War II -- ch. Five The Passionate and the Curious, Part I (1893 -- 1927): Collections Acquired in the / F. W. Kelsey Years -- The De Criscio Collection -- The Dennison Collection -- The Marburg (ex-Gottschalk) Collection -- The Todd Collection: The Djehutymose Coffin and Related Artifacts -- The Askren Collection -- The Petrie Gift -- The Barosso Watercolors -- ch. Six The Passionate and the Curious, Part II (1928 -- 2013): Collections Acquired / Kelsey Museum -- The Cesnola Collection -- The Van Deman Collection --