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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.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia [1967]Description: xii, 166 p. illus., ports. 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069/.0973
LOC classification:
  • AM11 .C3
Contents:
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.
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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.

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