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Bush, Margaret S. (Sc 1942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Bush, Margaret S. (Sc 1942), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1942. Information chiefly related to Margaret S. Bush's tenure as director of the Lewis B. Hershey Museum at Tri-State University in Angola, Indiana. also inlcudes letters from former presidetns Truman and Johnson thanking her for providing information about the Hershey Museum.

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Japan's Haunting War Art: Contested War Memories And Art Museums, Asato Ikeda Apr 2009

Japan's Haunting War Art: Contested War Memories And Art Museums, Asato Ikeda

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.

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Intern At The Harriman-Nielsen Farm: Where To Begin?, Nana Mikkelsen Jan 2009

Intern At The Harriman-Nielsen Farm: Where To Begin?, Nana Mikkelsen

The Bridge

During the months of October and November 2008, I interned on the Harriman-Nielsen Farm in Hampton, Iowa. The Danish American Heritage Society was looking for a Danish intern to assist the Harriman-Nielsen Farm board in the process of creating an interpretive exhibition, which would tell the stories of the estate. I immediately thought it would be a good place for me to apply my professional training in a combination of dramaturgy and museology. I find it interesting to introduce theatre elements into a museum context.

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Funeral Program, 2009, John P. Mcgovern Museum Of Health And Medical Science Jan 2009

Funeral Program, 2009, John P. Mcgovern Museum Of Health And Medical Science

Museum Publications (1998-2009)

Funeral program for Louise Geerts.

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Roosevelt's Oglethorpe Speech Resonates Jan 2009

Roosevelt's Oglethorpe Speech Resonates

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article talks about a famous speech delivered by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1932, in which he touched on the economic difficulties of the day. It notes that the original documents of the historic speech was displayed at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2008. It describes the features of the original document.

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Exchanging Totems: Totemism In Baldwin Spencer's Overseas Exchanges, Gareth Knapman Dec 2008

Exchanging Totems: Totemism In Baldwin Spencer's Overseas Exchanges, Gareth Knapman

Gareth Knapman

Between 1899 and 1908, the director of the National Museum of Victoria, Walter Baldwin Spencer dispatched, as either gifts or exchanges, multiple collections of Aboriginal objects to museums in Europe and North America. He initially used these collections to promote his and Francis Gillen's ideas and research into totemism. Totemism was one ofthe hot debates of early twentieth century sociology/anthropology, and the collections constructed by Spencer and Gillen were representative of illustrations published in their books. In building his collections, Spencer developed a hierarchy of totemic symbols and 'manufactured' the nurtunja1 (Anartentye) as an Arunta (Arrernte) equivalent of the American …

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