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• W55243764 abstract "If libraries used to be associated with books, today they are equated with books and technology. The discipline of history has likewise been associated with books. In this guest column, Michael Jarrell suggests a broader conceptualization of libraries and history that asserts the primacy of the material object. During the spring of 1992, I was an enthusiastic and overly naive student of history at Ball State University, a medium-sized university in central Indiana. I was nearing the completion of a bachelor's degree in history and political science and already made plans to continue studying history as a graduate student. By that time, I already formulated my course of study. I been interested in Chicago's White City, the Columbian Exposition of 1893, for a number of years, and I was beginning to find a niche for myself within the body of fair literature by examining the goods manufactured to satisfy fairgoers' appetites for material objects. During this period, Americans were facing a number of changes in their lives, including urbanization, industrialization, internationalism, the rise of professionalism, and the widespread growth of consumerism and materialism. According to Thomas Schlereth, a noted Victorian America historian, Americans during this period had more money and more time to purchase more goods, mass-produced more cheaply and advertised more widely.[1] Clearly, material goods were important to many Americans during the 1890s, and in 1992 I believed, and still believe, that the rise of materialism at the turn of the century is an important avenue of study for historians of that era. In order to gain a full appreciation for the flavor of materialism being developed during this period, I decided that I should examine a representative sample of goods purchased and admired by my historical subjects. The legacy of the Columbian Exposition provided me with the perfect venue to explore this facet of Victorian culture because of the huge number of souvenirs sold during the course of the fair. However, few memorabilia collections are open to the public for the type of examination required by historians devoted to the study of material culture. One museum, specializing in Chicago's fair and located in the upper level of an antique mall in Columbus, Wis., contains a large number of souvenirs from the Columbian Exposition, but gaining access to these items is extremely precarious since it is owned by a private collector. Other sizable collections include those held by the Chicago Historical Society and the Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The latter collection was the focus of the World's Fairs and Modern Life conference that I attended at the Smithsonian Institution on March 20, 1992. After the final speaker of the day presented his summation of the conference, the session's moderator queried the audience for questions. I dutifully raised my hand at the appropriate moment and asked the question that surfaced within my mind near the end of the daylong event. How can I obtain access to the world's fair collections being held by the Smithsonian? I asked. The moderator, an employee at the National Museum of American History, responded with a simple, yet effective, You can't. My initial response to this statement was bewilderment. Why would a facility want to maintain a collection that was largely unusable by those individuals who could utilize it for valid research endeavors? It is painfully clear to me now that there are a number of reasons why the Smithsonian Institution would not want an undergraduate student from Indiana rummaging through its vast holdings. For example, the curators and museum specialists responsible for the Smithsonian's collections recognize their value and work hard to preserve them. As a librarian, I believe that I now possess some of the same concerns that the moderator expressed in his response to my query, but these concerns do not overshadow the fact that three-dimensional artifacts are valuable to some researchers. …" @default.
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