Material Culture Review Revue de la culture matérielle Table of
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Material Culture Review Revue de la culture matérielle Table of
74-75 Material Culture Review 2012 Revue de la culture matérielle Special Double Issue Spring Printemps New Haven Folding chair company had only one patent for an “invalid rolling chair” in 1878. This patent was to be a financially successful business for a patent folding chair manufacturer. 1873 New Haven Folding Chair Company Illustrated catalogue of folding chairs and reversible body carriages. University of Michigan. See article p. 66. Material Culture Review Revue de la culture matérielle Editorial Board Comité de rédaction Editor in Chief / Rédacteur en chef Richard MacKinnon CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY Managing Editor / Directeur administratif Richard MacKinnon CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY Associate Editor / Rédacteur associé The contents of contributions to Material Culture Review are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and are not to be attributed to Material Culture Review, its editors, production staff, or Editorial Board or Cape Breton University. 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See article / voir l’article p.14. Websites / Sites Internet http://culture.cbu.ca http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/MCR Material Culture Review gratefully acknowledges the support of Cape Breton University Press and Cape Breton University. La Revue de la culture matérielle est reconnaissante de l’appui qui lui est offert par le Cape Breton University Press et Cape Breton University. Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle P.O. Box 5300, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada B1P 6L2 Tel: 902.563.1990 Fax: 902.563.1910 Email/Courriel: [email protected] Material Culture Review Revue de la culture matérielle Table of Contents / Table des matières EDITORIAL / ÉDITORIAL Richard MacKinnon 5 INTRODUCTION / INTRODUCTION Edward S. Cooke, Jr. and Imogen Hart Material Culture and Mobility Culture matérielle et mobilité 6 ARTICLES / ARTICLES Alexi Baker 14 “Precision,” “Perfection,” and the Reality of British Scientific Instruments on the Move During the 18th Century Philippa Hubbard Trade Cards in 18th-Century Consumer Culture: Movement, Circulation, and Exchange in Commercial and Collecting Spaces 30 Renata Schellenberg Moving toward the Museum in 18th-Century Germany 47 Tania Batley A Different Way of Sitting: American Patent Folding Chairs of the 19th Century 57 Luca Bochicchio Transported Art: 19th-Century Italian Sculptures Across Continents and Cultures 70 Lucy Mackintosh Holding on to Objects in Motion: Two Māori Musical Instruments in the Peabody Essex Museum 86 Andrew Burtch Heralds of Doom 102 Abby Loebenberg 116 Consumption, Collection, Creativity: Micro-Local Practices within Children’s Bedroom Play in Urban Vancouver Lauren Disalvo Plaster Cast Collections from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Context: Examining Culturally Determined Significance through Environment and Time 131 Hannah-Lee Chalk Mobile Stones: The Uses and Meanings of Earth Science Teaching Specimens 149 Lisa Ford A Body in Motion: The Afterlives of the Tomb of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton 161 RESEARCH REPORT / RAPPORT DE RECHERCHE Chloé Vigneau Des objets et des hommes : La seconde vie des objets « déchets » dans l’art 174 Tobiah Horton A Layered Place: Reuse of Materials in Recoding Public Space 187 RESEARCH NOTE / NOTE DE RECHERCHE Anne Quillien 199 Expositions itinérantes internationales et régie des œuvres : Le cas du Victoria and Albert Museum EXHIBITION REVIEW / COMPTE RENDU D’EXPOSITION Mathieu Viau-Courville 205 Diane Landry et l’objet vernaculaire : de la mouvance des objets au Musée de l’Amérique française BOOK REVIEW / COMPTE RENDU DE LIVRE Peter M. Latta Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History 215 CONTRIBUTORS / AUTEURS 217 4 Material Culture Review 73 (Spring 2011) / Revue de la culture matérielle 73 (printemps 2011)