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A Cabinet of curiosities: five episodes in the evolution of American museums, described by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. [and others] With an introd. by Walter Muir Whitehill.

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  • Physical Description: xii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia [1967]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliographical footnotes.
Formatted Contents Note:
The cabinet of the American Philosophical Society, by W. J. Bell, Jr.--The museum of the American Antiquarian Society, by C. K. Shipton.--William Clark's Indian Museum in St. Louis, 1816-1838, by J. C. Ewers.--"Ohio show-shop": the Western Museum of Cincinnati, 1820-1867, by L. L. Tucker.--Joseph Henry's conception of the purpose of the Smithsonian Institution, by W. E. Washburn.
Subject:
Museums > United States.

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