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2019/06/01 by Alexander Lawrence Ames, Devon Dara Ennis · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Art #Art history #Computer science #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #History #Library science #Value (mathematics) #Visual arts

paper · doi:10.1086/705912

openalex publication_date 2019/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11

Abstract

What do libraries and museums have in common? What sets them apart? Should rare books be treated primarily as text-based information sources or as material things with artifactual value? This case study of Memorial Library, a room in Winterthur Museum that houses a substantial book collection, lends historical nuance to these pressing questions facing library science and museum studies by examining the lives and legacies of Winterthur figures H. A. and H. F. du Pont through the lenses of the room, its books, and the history of du Pont family book and decorative art collecting.

Cited by

• Ruth Wales du Pont [wikipedia]

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• Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge
• Book Collecting
• The Bibliothèque Nationale and Cultural Productions of Scholarship
• Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830
• Introduction: ‘Historic libraries and the historiography of art’: articles arising from sessions held at the 107th College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, 13-16 February 2019, and the 108th College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 12-15 February 2020