The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 3: Modern Voices

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
General preface to series
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I National voices
	1 The Great Exhibition of 1851, London, is created
	2 The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 is organised
	3 The South Kensington Museum is established
	4 Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks is appointed to the British Museum
	5 The National Portrait Gallery, London, comes into being in 1856
	6 The India Museum experiences mixed fortunes
	7 The Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is formed
	8 Museums in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, are established, 1857-61
	9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes into being
	10 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is established
	11 The Philadelphia Museum of Art is created
II Institutional declarations
	12 Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers describes classification and typology
	13 The Musée d\'Ethnographie, Paris, makes its first collections, 1877-78
	14 The British Museum debates its collecting and exhibitions policy, 1885
	15 The public are encouraged to participate in collecting natural history specimens
	16 The press pleads for public support for expanding the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 1895
	17 Collecting for natural history exhibitions in late nineteenth-century Melbourne enjoys popular support
	18 Children are inspired to collect
	19 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, gathers its first collections
	20 Lord Leverhulme describes the benefits of public art collections, 1915
III Voices from the beyond
	21 Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovers the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings
	22 Amelia Edwards becomes a female scholar and populariser
	23 Marianne Brocklehurst sails up the Nile
	24 Austen Henry Layard excavates Nineveh and Babylon
	25 Sir John Savile Lumley investigates the temple of Artemis at Nemi, Italy
	26 Officers of the Royal Navy encounter the Inuit
	27 Charles Roach Smith becomes the London archaeologist
	28 Hugh Alderson Fawcett achieves a remarkable collection
	29 The Harpur Crewe Family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
	30 Charles Paget Wade creates Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire
	31 The phrenologists collect heads
	32 Punch reflects society back at itself
IV Literary voices
	33 Charles Dickens: Bleak House
	34 Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone
	35 Arthur Conan Doyle: \'The Adventure of the Illustrious Client\'
	36 Bram Stoker: The Jewel of Seven Stars
	37 H. Rider Haggard: She
	38 H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
	39 Arnold Bennett: \'The Death of Simon Fuge\'
	40 G. K. Chesterton: \'The Doom of the Darnaways\'
	41 M. R. James: \'The Mezzotint\'
	42 John Buchan: John MacNab
	43 Dashiell Hammett: \'The Thin Man\'
	44 Victor Canning: The Golden Salamander
	45 Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
V Dark voices
	46 The relics of murder most foul: the Red Barn
	47 Museums of the macabre
	48 A mortal obsession: the collecting of Egyptian mummies
	49 Faking it: fakes and forgeries
	50 Waterloo: the great victory
	51 A soldier\'s life: regimental collections
	52 Collecting the First World War
	53 Collecting militaria
	54 Art collections manipulated by the state
	55 Hitler\'s dream of art: the culture-centre at Linz
	56 Germany in 1945: concealed treasure
	57 Memorial: the Holocaust Museum
Bibliography
Index