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'Business Carried them Far from Home': The Object Itinerary of a 19th-Century Antiquarian Collection (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines nineteenth-century artifact collecting practices through analysis of legacy, orphaned, and curated collections at Woodville Plantation (36AL29), a historic house museum in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. From the 1830s to 1920s, the Wrenshall family...