Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Inventing antiques
  • 1. Priceless and price : the antiquing of New England
  • 2. The Jewish dealer : antiques, acculturation, and aesthetics
  • 3. Jessie Barker Gardner and George Gardner : making a collection permanent
  • 4. Highboys and high culture : adopting an American aesthetic in Deerfield, Massachusetts
  • 5. Exhibiting the ordinary : history making at the Smithsonian
  • Epilogue. The end of the antique?