New England collectors and collections
By: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; Peter Benes, editor ; Jane Montague Benes, associate editor.
Contributors: Benes, Peter.; Benes, Jane Montague.
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings -- v. 29, 2004; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 2004.
Publisher: Boston University
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Collectors and collecting -- New England -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-217).

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Table of contents: value: Introduction. Section 1. Forming early collecting institutions (early nineteenth century). "An equal taste for antiquities" : Reverend William Bentley and the American Antiquarian Society / Thomas Knoles; value: "A few monstrous great snakes" : Daniel Bowen and the Columbian Museum, 1789-1816 / Peter Benes; value: Ethan Allen Greenwood : museum collector and proprietor / Georgia B. Barnhill. Section 2. Forming early collecting institutions (mid and late nineteenth century). A family enterprise : collecting Deerfield's past / Donald R. Friary; value: "This quaint Abbotsford-like residence" : Indian Hill, West Newbury, Massachusetts / Jane C. Nylander. Section. 3. Specialty collectors : china and furniture. "Bought...of nobody for almost nothing" : Anne Allen Ives and china collecting in nineteenth-century New England / Thomas S. Michie; value: Hartford's role in the origins of antiques collecting in America / William N. Hosley. Section 4. Specialty collectors : fauna and American labor history. Fur into feathers : Manly Hardy and his collection of North American birds / William B. Krohn and Marilyn R. Massaro; value: Labor artifacts / Scott Molloy. Section 5. New England collectors abroad. The Wallis Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum : putting a nineteenth-century travel collection in cultural contest / Christina Hellmich. Section 6. Motivation, collection theory, ethnicity. Colonial relics, nativism, and the DAR Loan Exhibition of 1892 / Robert P. Emlen; value: Sacred relics in the cause of liberty : a Civil War memorial cabinet and the Victorian logic of collecting / Tamara Plakins Thornton; value: History, memory, and the appropriation of the American Indian past : a family affair / Judy Kertesz.