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New England Collectors and Collections

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings, June 2004

SECTION I: FORMING EARLY COLLECTING INSTITUTIONS
(EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY)

“An Equal Taste for Antiquities”: Reverend William Bentley and the American Antiquarian Society
Thomas Knoles

“A few monstrous great Snakes”: Daniel Bowen and the Columbian Museum, 1789–1816
Peter Benes

Ethan Allen Greenwood: Museum Collector and Proprietor
Georgia B. Barnhill

SECTION II: FORMING EARLY COLLECTING INSTITUTIONS
(MID- AND LATE-NINETEENTH CENTURY)

A Family Enterprise: Collecting Deerfield’s Past 
Donald R. Friary

“This Quaint Abbotsford-like residence”: Indian Hill, West Newbury, Massachusetts
Jane C. Nylander

SECTION III: SPECIALTY COLLECTORS: CHINA AND FURNITURE

“Bought of nobody for almost nothing”: Anne Allen Ives and China Collecting in Nineteenth-Century New England
Thomas S. Michie

Hartford’s Role in the Origins of Antiques Collecting in America
William N. Hosley

SECTION IV: SPECIALTY COLLECTORS: FAUNA AND AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY

Fur into Feathers: Manly Hardy and His Collection of North American Birds
William B. Krohn and Marilyn R. Massaro

Labor Artifacts
Scott Molloy

SECTION V: NEW ENGLAND COLLECTORS ABROAD

The Wallis Collection in the Peabody Essex Museum: Putting a Nineteenth-Century Travel Collection in Cultural Context
Christina Hellmich

SECTION VI: MOTIVATION, COLLECTION THEORY, ETHNICITY

Colonial Relics, Nativism, and the DAR Loan Exhibition of 1892
Robert P. Emlen

Sacred Relics in the Cause of Liberty: A Civil War Memorial Cabinet and the Victorian Logic of Collecting
Tamara Plakins Thornton

History, Memory, and the Appropriation of the American Indian Past: A Family Affair
Judy Kertész

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

Conference Program, 18, 19, and 20 June 2004
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors