Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870

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CURATORS AND CULTURE History of American Science and Technology Series General Editor, LESTER D. STEPHENS The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842 by Charlotte M. Porter Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science by David N. Livingstone Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887: South Carolina Scientist in the Civil War Era by Tamara Miner Haygood Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist, 1781-1851 by Frederick L. M. Pattison Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt since Flexner by Timothy C. Jacobson u.S. Coast Survey vs. Naval Hydrographic Office: A 19th,Century Rivalry in Science and Politics by Thomas G. Manning George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist by Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985 by Janet Colaizzi Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870 by Joel J. Orosz CURATORS AND CULTURE The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870 JOEL J. OROSZ The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London Copyright © 1990 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 00 The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI A39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Orosz, Joel J. Curators and culture: the museum movement in America. 1740-1870 / Joel J. Orosz. p. cm.-(History of American science and technology series) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-°475-4 (alk. paper) I. Museums-United States-History. 2. Museum curators-United States-History. 3. United States-Popular culture--MuseumsHistory . I. Title. II. Series. AMII.076 1990 069'.0973-dc2o British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available 0-8173-1204-8 (pbk: alk. paper) For my parents, Joseph Orosz and Caroline Orosz, my first and best teachers ...