Acts of possession
Subtitle: collecting in America
By: edited by Leah Dilworth.
Contributors: Dilworth, Leah.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Collectors and collecting -- United States; Collectors and collecting -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An American cabinet of curiosities : Thomas Jefferson's "Indian Hall" at Monticello / Joyce Henri Robinson; title: "And a little child shall lead them" : American children's cabinets of curiosities / Shirley Teresa Wajda; title: Dreaming in commerce : advertising trade card scrapbooks / Ellen Gruber Garvey; title: Collecting the nation : visions of nationalism in two Civil War-era photograph albums / Andrea L. Volpe; title: The curious cabinet of Dr. Morton / Ann Fabian; title: Collecting Mr. Ayer's narrative / Carolyn Kastner; title: En/gendering the Whitney's collection of American art / Evelyn C. Hankins; title: Small mercies : Colleen Moore's doll house and the National Charity Tour / Leslie Paris; title: Tradition and the individual memory : the case of Christian C. Sanderson / Teresa Barnett; title: All buy our selves at household auctions / Lisa A. Long; title: American icons : photographs / by Carrie Mae Weems; title: Exhibiting Nazi artifacts and challenging traditional museum culture : a conversation with Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. / Gregory Maertz; title: The serial killer as collector / Sara Knox.