Drawing upon the body of theoretical work on collecting, the contributors investigate how, what and why Americans have collected and why they are attracted to certain objects, exploring the inherent meanings behind systems of organization and display.
Drawing upon the body of theoretical work on collecting, the contributors investigate how, what and why Americans have collected and why they are attracted to certain objects, exploring the inherent meanings behind systems of organization and display.
LEAH DILWORTH is an associate professor of English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and the author of Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past.
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Acknowledgments Introduction "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": American Children's Cabinets of Curiosities Dreaming in Commerce: Advertising Trade Card Scrapbooks Collecting the Nation: Visions of Nationalism in Two Civil War-Era Photograph Albums The Curious Cabinet of Dr. Morton Collecting Mr. Ayer's Narrative En/Gendering the Whitney's Collection of American Art Small Mercies: Colleen Moore's Doll House and the National Charity Tour Tradition and the Individual Memory: The Case of Christian C. Sanderson All Buy Our Selves at Household Auctions American Icons Exhibiting Nazi Artifacts and Challenging Traditional Museum Culture: A Conversation with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. The Serial Killer as Collector Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction "And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": American Children's Cabinets of Curiosities Dreaming in Commerce: Advertising Trade Card Scrapbooks Collecting the Nation: Visions of Nationalism in Two Civil War-Era Photograph Albums The Curious Cabinet of Dr. Morton Collecting Mr. Ayer's Narrative En/Gendering the Whitney's Collection of American Art Small Mercies: Colleen Moore's Doll House and the National Charity Tour Tradition and the Individual Memory: The Case of Christian C. Sanderson All Buy Our Selves at Household Auctions American Icons Exhibiting Nazi Artifacts and Challenging Traditional Museum Culture: A Conversation with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. The Serial Killer as Collector Notes on Contributors Index
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