Useful objects : museums, science, and literature in nineteenth-century America / Reed Gochberg.

"Useful Objects: Museums, Science, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America explores the debates that surrounded the development of American museums during the nineteenth century. Throughout this period, museums included a wide range of objects, from botanical and zoological specimens to antiqua...

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Main Author: Gochberg, Reed (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Physical Description:266 pages : illustrations (black and white). ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Circulating objects : loss and decay in the American Philosophical Society's cabinet -- Shadowed silhouettes : writing indigenous resistance in early American museums -- American claimants : overwhelming collections and visitor impressions at the British Museum -- Novel inventions : nation and spectacle in the U.S. Patent Office gallery -- Specimen collectors : preservation and classification at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
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