Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive. Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors’ diverse approaches, varying formats, and wide scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.
Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive. Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors’ diverse approaches, varying formats, and wide scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.
MARTIN BRÜCKNER is the director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and a professor in the English department at the University of Delaware in Newark. His books include The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 and The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. SANDY ISENSTADT is a professor and chair of the art history department at the University of Delaware in Newark. His most recent book, Electric Light: An Architectural History, is the first sustained examination of the architectural spaces generated by the introduction of electric lighting.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt I. Archives in Practice 1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating” Julian Yates 2. “Archive Vision” Wendy Bellion 3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice” Julie L. McGee 4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine” Torsten Cress 5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding and using archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it” Cindy Ott 6. “Historical Form(s)” Laura Helton II. Archives in Objects 7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan” Jennifer Van Horn 8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive” Kiersten Thamm 9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment” Alexandra Ward 10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History in German-American Illuminated Manuscripts” Alexander Lawrence Ames 11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive” Halina Adams 12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame” Rosalie Hooper III. Archives in Places 13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic” Sarah Wasserman 14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt” Spencer Wigmore 15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground Railroad Landscapes in Delaware” Catherine Morrissey 16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment” Michelle Everidge Anderson 17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave” Kaila T. Schedeen 18. “Buried Archives” Lu Ann De Cunzo IV. Archives in Circulation 19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster” Natalie Elizabeth Wright 20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language Atlantic World” Oliver Scheiding 21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar” J. Ritchie Garrison 22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the Syrian Civil War” Jesse Kraft 23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700- 1850” Michael Emmons 24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform” Jessica Conrad Afterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects” Bernard L. Herman Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: “The Elusive Archive in Material Culture Studies” by Martin Brückner and Sandy Isenstadt I. Archives in Practice 1. “On the Material Culture of Multispecies Relating” Julian Yates 2. “Archive Vision” Wendy Bellion 3. “Fugitive Archives: Privilege and Practice” Julie L. McGee 4. “Touch and the Making of Religious Material Culture. Visiting the Lourdes Shrine” Torsten Cress 5. “A historian walks into a bar… Or, a story about alternative ways of finding and using archives when the normal avenues don’t cut it” Cindy Ott 6. “Historical Form(s)” Laura Helton II. Archives in Objects 7. “Both Lost and Found: A Portrait of the Enslaved Homer Ryan” Jennifer Van Horn 8. “The Chaise Sandows: Object as (Obscured) Archive” Kiersten Thamm 9. “Decoupage: Cutting Ephemera and Assembling Sentiment” Alexandra Ward 10. “’Inscribe, Lord, Your Will in My Stone Heart’: Finding Religious History in German-American Illuminated Manuscripts” Alexander Lawrence Ames 11. “The Mobile Architectural Archive” Halina Adams 12. “The Case of the Mysterious Chest-on-Frame” Rosalie Hooper III. Archives in Places 13. “Refuse, Refuge, Relic” Sarah Wasserman 14. “Searching for the Lost Mines of Albert Bierstadt” Spencer Wigmore 15. “Landscapes of Refuge: Recovering the Materiality of Underground Railroad Landscapes in Delaware” Catherine Morrissey 16. “Desolation in Crowded Spaces: Reconstructing the Material Culture of Internment” Michelle Everidge Anderson 17. “Seeking Hózhó: The Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Will Wilson’s AIR Weave” Kaila T. Schedeen 18. “Buried Archives” Lu Ann De Cunzo IV. Archives in Circulation 19. “Ikuo Yokoyama’s Motorcycle: Entropic Decay and the Anatomy of a Disaster” Natalie Elizabeth Wright 20. “Fraktur: Material Religion and Print Culture in the Early German-Language Atlantic World” Oliver Scheiding 21. “John Hancock’s Fugitive Tar” J. Ritchie Garrison 22. “Stability Lost: Monetary Conditions of Refugees from World War II and the Syrian Civil War” Jesse Kraft 23. “Inscribing Sanctuary: Early American Buildings and Apotropaic Markings, 1700- 1850” Michael Emmons 24. “Bottling Death and Brewing Resistance in Temperance Literature and Reform” Jessica Conrad Afterword: “Elusive Archives and the Poetical Promise of Objects” Bernard L. Herman Notes on Contributors Index
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