Author: National Maritime Museum (U.S.)
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Category : Naval museums
Languages : en
Pages : 61
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Author: National Maritime Museum (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Naval museums
Languages : en
Pages : 61
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Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147252733X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation, shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums. Using critically informed empirical investigation, it explores substantive and historiographical questions such as what is the historical patterning in the way photographs have been produced, collected and retained by museums? How do categories of the aesthetic and evidential shape the history of collecting photographs? What has been the work of photographs in museums? What does an understanding of photograph collections add to our understanding of collections history more broadly? What are the methodological demands of research on photograph collections? The case studies cover a wide range of museums and collection types, from art galleries to maritime museums, national collections to local history museums, and international perspectives including Cuba, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. Together they offer a fascinating insight into both the history of collections and collecting, and into the practices and poetics of archives across a range of disciplines, including the history of science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology.
Author: Nathan Lipfert
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1608936821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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From the moment colonists at Popham launched the first ship constructed in the New World in 1608, Maine has been a shipbuilding powerhouse. Celebrating the bicentennial of Maine, historian Nathan Lipfert, in cooperation with the Maine Maritime Museum explores the rich history of Maine shipbuilding. Though concentrating primarily on shipbuilding activity in the two centuries since statehood, the book begins with pre-1820 activity, including native canoe-making (the oldest known birchbark canoe is in a Maine museum) and colonial-period shipbuilding. Covering the entire coast, this rich visual history focuses on the industry and the vessels produced, highlighting Maine’s national and international importance in shipbuilding over the past two centuries, and its continuing relevance to national security, the fisheries, yachting and harbor craft.
Author: Dawn Littler
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This guide follows the Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum Volume I (Vol 8 of Research in Maritime History) and covers the remaining collections hosted at the Merseyside Maritime Museum relating to a wide variety of subjects:- merchants; shipbuilding; slavery; emigration; maritime families; maritime charities; seafarers; the Titantic; and the Lusitania. This guide follows the same format as the previous:- a brief historical introduction; a list of main items; an archival code; a datespan; a quantity of records; and a reference to any key printed sources held in the museum’s Reading Room. The subjects are broken down into ten thematic chapters, for ease of navigation.
Author: International Maritime Economic History Association
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0968128874
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This guide follows the Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum Volume I (Vol 8 of Research in Maritime History) and covers the remaining collections hosted at the Merseyside Maritime Museum relating to a wide variety of subjects: - merchants; shipbuilding; slavery; emigration; maritime families; maritime charities; seafarers; the Titantic; and the Lusitania. This guide follows the same format as the previous: - a brief historical introduction; a list of main items; an archival code; a datespan; a quantity of records; and a reference to any key printed sources held in the museum's Reading Room. The subjects are broken down into ten thematic chapters, for ease of navigation.
Author: National Endowment for the Humanities
Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to education
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Includes appendices.
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
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Author: Smithsonian Institution
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Author: Merseyside Maritime Museum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0969588577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The first volume of the guide summarizes the Merseyside Maritime Museum's holdings of records of official organizations, such as the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, connected to the history of the Port of Liverpool, as well as the records of Liverpool-based shipping companies. The second volume, similar to the first, includes a cumulative index for both volumes, and covers collections omitted from the first, primarily focusing on the human dimension of the Port of Liverpool (no. 17, p. vii).
