Engaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts

Author(s)

• Arnoldi, Mary Jo

Bibliographic Information

Engaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts

edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi

（Smithsonian contributions to knowledge）

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

• Material matters : ways of knowing museum objects / Mary Jo Arnoldi
• Smithson's Crypt and the search for a proper Memorial / Richard Stamm
• James Smithson's remains : a biological perspective / David R. Hunt
• Thomas Wilfred's Study in depth, Opus 152 : an artist's experiment with lighting / Bernard Finn
• Silent music : Thomas Wilfred's Study in depth, Opus 152 / Judith Zilczer
• A not so gentle history : violent explosions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii / Richard Fiske
• Objectifying Pele as performance, material culture, and cultural landscape / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
• How to Identify a Stradivarius stringed instrument / Gary Sturm and Bruno Frohlich
• Violins from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and private collections : a pilot comparative study / Bruno Frohlich and Gary Sturm
• Huey helicopter : steed for the "sky calvary" / Roger Connor
• Huey 65-10126 : a curator's journey of discovery / Peter L. Jakab
• A throwing knife through production and use / S. Terry Childs
• A throwing knife in motion : the journey from the Congo to the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi
• The iron lung in history and cultural memory / Katherine Ott
• Whatever happened to the iron lung? Visitor memories of an iconic medical object / Matthew A. White
• Augustus Washington : daguerreotypist of John Brown / Ann M. Shumard
• In the service of abolitionism : Augustus Washington's daguerreotype portrait of John Brown / Frank H. Goodyear III
• The amazing ruby slippers and their magical travels / Ellen Roney Hughes
• Collecting a national tragedy : the National Museum of American History and September 11 / James B. Gardner
• September 11, 2001, a moment in time : relevance of the Smithsonian human skeleton collections / Marilyn R. London

Details

• NCID: BB22506048
• ISBN:
  • 9781935623168
• LCCN: 2015018885
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
• Pages/Volumes: v, 310 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN406
  • DC23 : 069
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Material culture
  • LCSH : Museum exhibits -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Smithsonian Institution -- Exhibitions
  • LCSH : Smithsonian Material Culture Forum
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1271844X