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The Earliest South Asian Collectors of South Asian Antiquities: War, Business, and Antiquarian Research in Nineteenth-Century Northwest India

South Asian studies
In the nineteenth century, European antiquarians travelled to India as the territorial rivalry between Britain and Russia for influence over Central Asia, known as the Great Game, raged on.
Shreya Gupta
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Collecting the new: Major museum collections of twentieth-century Chinese painting in London and Oxford

, 2020
In the first half of the twentieth century, members of the public in Britain were familiar with traditional Chinese painting, but not work produced by living artists from Republican China.
M. Huang
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Collecting as Historical Practice and the Conundrum of the Unmoored Object

, 2020
Collecting drives scholarship. Historians rely upon texts, preserved in libraries, archives, and private hands. Scholars of material culture seek out artifacts, whether held by museums, galleries, historical societies, or individual owners.
Catherine L. Whalen
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Collections & Collectors: 1. Lichfield Museums

Geological Curator, 1974
It was thought that a series of articles on Museums and collections of importance might be of interest to members of the Group,
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Collections & Collectors: 39. The Sedgwick Museum Cambridge

Geological Curator, 1981
The Sedgwick Museum houses major palaeontological collections of international importance associated with one of the World's oldest geological Professorships. Its collections, because of their early start (certain specimens date back to 17th century collections),^ their rapid growth throughout the 19th century and the very active palaeontological and ...
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The Creation of the National Museum of Colombia (1823–1830): A History of Collections, Collectors, and Museums

Museum History Journal, 2016
The National Museum of Colombia was inaugurated on 4 July 1824. This museum was created along with a mining school in a post-revolutionary political context during the wars of independence. Museums in South America created in the early nineteenth century are seen as state formulations embedded in nationalist rhetoric conceived within the newborn states.
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Collections & Collectors: 15. The Tempest Anderson collection of photographs At Yorkshire Museum.

Geological Curator, 1978
This article results from a preliminary survey, lasting some seven days, of the Tempest Anderson Collection of photographs in the Yorkshire Museum at York, and deals especially with the photographs of volcanoes and of volcanic structures and phenomena.
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Art Market and the Museum

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century.

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The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of reptile palaeontology

Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2010
Abstract The early history of reptile palaeontology is reviewed in order to assess the different roles played by museums, collections and collectors. The formal characterization and description of several fossil reptile groups (mosasaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and dinosaurs) is then examined in a series of case histories ...
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Collections & Collectors: 53. Geological collections at North East Fife District Museum Service

Geological Curator, 1987
In May 1975 the newly-created North East Fife District Council inherited museum collections in the burghs of Cupar, Newburgh and St Andrews. All three museum collections had suffered years of neglect through lack of curatorial care. In late 1982 the district council appointed a curator whose priority tasks were the cataloguing and conservation of ...
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