A Cabinet of curiosities
Subtitle: five episodes in the evolution of American museums
By: described by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. [and others] With an introd. by Walter Muir Whitehill.
Contributors: Bell, Whitfield J.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Museums -- United States.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The cabinet of the American Philosophical Society, by W. J. Bell, Jr.; title: The museum of the American Antiquarian Society, by C. K. Shipton.; title: William Clark's Indian Museum in St. Louis, 1816-1838, by J. C. Ewers.; title: "Ohio show-shop": the Western Museum of Cincinnati, 1820-1867, by L. L. Tucker.; title: Joseph Henry's conception of the purpose of the Smithsonian Institution, by W. E. Washburn.