Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them": American Children's Cabinets of Curiosities
Dreaming in Commerce: Advertising Trade Card Scrapbooks
Collecting the Nation: Visions of Nationalism in Two Civil War-Era Photograph Albums
The Curious Cabinet of Dr. Morton
Collecting Mr. Ayer's Narrative
En/Gendering the Whitney's Collection of American Art
Small Mercies: Colleen Moore's Doll House and the National Charity Tour
Tradition and the Individual Memory: The Case of Christian C. Sanderson
All Buy Our Selves at Household Auctions 
American Icons
Exhibiting Nazi Artifacts and Challenging Traditional Museum Culture: A Conversation with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. 
The Serial Killer as Collector
Notes on Contributors
Index

About the Author

LEAH DILWORTH is an associate professor of English at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus and the author of Imagining Indians in the Southwest: Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past.

Reviews

A thoughtful and complex reading of a subject of interest to anybody who has ever kept pretty pebbles in a cigar box or tried to run a major museum!
*author of Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America's Greatest Holiday*