Title 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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Moore Stacks	AM11 .C3	Available	---

Description	xii, 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Bibliographical footnotes.
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.
Subject	Museums -- United States.
	Museums.
	United States.
Added Author	Bell, Whitfield J., Jr., 1914-2009.