The Boston Athenaeum : bicentennial essays /

The Boston Athenaeum : bicentennial essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wendorf, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Boston Athenaeum ; 2009.
Subjects:
Boston Athenaeum > History.
Subscription libraries > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Athenaeum origins / Richard Wendorf
  • America's most influential library? / Kenneth E. Carpenter
  • The role of women at the Boston Athenaeum / Barbara Adams Hebard
  • Nineteenth-century British tourists in search of culture in Boston / David B. Dearinger
  • Whose library? / Katherine Wolff
  • Prints and photographs at the Boston Athenaeum / Sally Pierce
  • Building an architectural collection / Catherina Slautterback
  • The Boston Athenaeum and the creation of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts / Hina Hirayama
  • Scruples and restricted access at the Boston Athenaeum / Mary Warnement
  • Conservation at the Boston Athenaeum / James Reid-Cunningham
  • Building the Boston Athenaeum's book arts collection / Stanley Ellis Cushing
  • The Calderwood writing initiative at the Boston Athenaeum / John Brereton.