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.
| Other author/creator | Bell, Whitfield J., Jr., 1914-2009. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [1967] |
| Description | xii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Bibliographical footnotes. |
| LCCN | 67021660 |
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