Material Culture Review Revue de la culture matérielle

2012

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.

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Editor in Chief / Rédacteur en chef

Richard MacKinnon CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY

Managing Editor / Directeur administratif

Richard MacKinnon CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY

Associate Editor / Rédacteur associé

Yves Bergeron UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL

Exhibition Review Editor / Responsable des comptes rendus d’expositions

Julia Lum PhD Student, YALE UNIVERSITY

English Language Review Editor / Responsable des comptes rendus en anglais

Holly Everett MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

Advisory Board / Comité consultatif

Jeremy Aynsley ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Joy Davis UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA Bernard Herman UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Matthew Johnson NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Rhona Richman Kenneally CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITÉ CON- CORDIA Brian Osborne QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Gerald Pocius MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND Pravina Shukla INDIANA UNIVERSITY Dell Upton UCLA

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Cover / Couverture : John Harrison’s marine timekee- per, “H1.” © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Ministry of Defence Art Collection. See article / voir l’article p.14.

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Table of Contents / Table des matières

EDITORIAL / ÉDITORIAL

Richard MacKinnon 5

INTRODUCTION / INTRODUCTION

Edward S. Cooke, Jr. and Imogen Hart 6

Material Culture and Mobility Culture matérielle et mobilité

ARTICLES / ARTICLES

Alexi Baker 14

“Precision,” “Perfection,” and the Reality of British Scientific Instruments on the Move During the 18th Century

Philippa Hubbard 30

Trade Cards in 18th-Century Consumer Culture: Movement, Circulation, and Exchange in Commercial and Collecting Spaces

Renata Schellenberg 47

Moving toward the Museum in 18th-Century Germany

Tania Batley 57

A Different Way of Sitting: American Patent Folding Chairs of the 19th Century

Luca Bochicchio 70

Transported Art: 19th-Century Italian Sculptures Across Continents and Cultures

Lucy Mackintosh 86

Holding on to Objects in Motion: Two Māori Musical Instruments in the Peabody Essex Museum

Andrew Burtch 102

Heralds of Doom

Abby Loebenberg 116

Consumption, Collection, Creativity: Micro-Local Practices within Children’s Bedroom Play in Urban Vancouver

Lauren Disalvo 131

Plaster Cast Collections from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Context: Examining Culturally Determined Significance through Environment and Time

Hannah-Lee Chalk 149

Mobile Stones: The Uses and Meanings of Earth Science Teaching Specimens

Lisa Ford 161

A Body in Motion: The Afterlives of the Tomb of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton

RESEARCH REPORT / RAPPORT DE RECHERCHE

Chloé Vigneau 174

Des objets et des hommes : La seconde vie des objets « déchets » dans l’art

Tobiah Horton 187

A Layered Place: Reuse of Materials in Recoding Public Space

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 215

Cape Breton Railways: An Illustrated History

CONTRIBUTORS / AUTEURS 217