Hidden treasures : what museums can't or won't show you / Harriet Baskas.

Title: 
Hidden treasures : what museums can't or won't show you / Harriet Baskas.

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Author/Artist: 
Baskas, Harriet.
Description: 
xv, 175 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Museum exhibits United States Miscellanea Catalogs.
Curiosities and wonders United States Catalogs.
Bib ID: 
131677
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
AM11.B37 2013z
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Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Complimentary copy ; Harriet Baskas; 2012; 1000138360; 1000138361
Glass bottles: p. 20; Ball jars: p. 40-42; Jesse James's signature etched in glass: p. 51; Blaschka glass models: p. 60-61; CMoG glass coffin: p. 87-90; Tiffany flat and pressed jewels: p. 94-96.
Contents: 
Livingstone's medicine chest: Wellcome collection (London, England) --
Saltshakers and shrunken heads: Lightner Museum (St. Augustine, Florida) --
Ball jars collection: Minnestrista Heritage Collection (Muncie, Indiana) --
Lifelike glass sea life and historically significant insects: Harvard's museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts) --
Glass coffin: Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, New York) --
The Neustadt collection of Tiffany glass: Queens Museum of Art (Queens, New York).
ISBN: 
9780762780471 (pbk.)
0762780479 (pbk.)

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG object: 2001.4.234, p. 87-88.
Includes CMGL material: 70545, cover, p. 89.