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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Personal collections"”.
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Children's perceptions of their personal collections in relation to their art museum experiences
… of collecting and arranging their own collections as a link to response to objects in an art museum. A series of activities and interviews were conducted, using a constructivist approach grounded in Gardner's (1995) theory of Multiple Intelligences. Homer's (1986a) paradigm of …
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… where the great number of wardrobes in its collections remains a largely untapped resource. My thesis examines the relationship between the V&A as a museum of art and design and these highly personal collections of dress through a case study of the wardrobe of the American socialite Emilie …
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Hazel Brannon Smith: a portrait of the journalist as a young woman
… government files, court case transcripts, personal interviews, and personal correspondence and papers. Videotaped interviews along with face-to-face encounters, and telephone conversations also contributed. I was able to examine the original editions of the Crimson-White from 1932 to 1935, …
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Surf’s Us: constructing surfing identities through clothing culture in Cornwall
… to archival material from regional museums, personal collections and interviews with amateur and professional surf historians. Oral histories of surfing, bellyboarding, bodyboarding and beach life compiled for the study and from existing collections are additionally used to interrogate …
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Historical/Analytical Study Of The Contributions Of Alma E. McKibbin To The Seventh-Day Adventist Church School System
… included historical documents from archival and personal collections of materials, oral histories, books, and Seventh-day Adventist periodicals, and from over one hundred interviews by the author. Sources for contextual background included the qualitative studies of Barbara Finkelstein (Governing …
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Affective belongings and remediating practices: visualising Imperial formations and unlearning Whiteness in relation to British immigration in so-called Australia.
… lie in my family histories of immigration and personal encounters with Australianness and Britishness. From these experiences, I identify a personal, nostalgic, cryptic and mythological sense of belonging. Thus, I explore the critical spaces where nostalgia, belonging and whiteness overlap …
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STABLE ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS OF PREHISTORIC DOGS (CANIS FAMILIARIS) AND THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… Historic Period, were obtained from museum and personal collections, and from ongoing archaeological excavations throughout the Northeast region of North America. Stable isotope analysis was conducted at Notre Dame's Center for Environmental Science and Technology. The results of this analysis …
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"Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain
… culture that promoted a particular type of personal communication and required the creation of textual production. The album was established as a unique cultural manifestation, the study of which allows for a reconstruction of different types of social dynamics in its milieu. </p><p>Due to …
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The information needs and challenges of agricultural researchers and extension workers in Zimbabwe
… colleagues, workshops and seminars, and personal collections. The level of usage and preferences differed, but overall agricultural researchers showed a preference for electronic sources while extension workers preferred print sources. Departmental collections were especially prominent …
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Information-seeking and sharing behaviors among fire service field staff instructors: a qualitative study
… sources include formal/institutional, informal/personal and group network-mediated sources of information. This study identifies three collaborative information-seeking forms of joint, tag team, and intra-group and categorizes sequences of information activities the instructor participants …