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04026aam a2200481 i 4500 001 C8E00A22101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 180826t20182018nyua b 000 0deng c 010 $a 2018032991 020 $a 0922233497 020 $a 9780922233496 035 $a (OCoLC)1045504292 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TFW $d YDX $d IUL $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-pa $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/n-us-pa 050 00 $a GN193 $b .P43 2018 082 00 $a 599.147 $2 23 100 1 $a Peck, Robert McCracken, $d 1952- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82059918 245 10 $a Specimens of hair : $b the curious collection of Peter A. Browne / $c Robert McCracken Peck ; photographs by Rosamond Purcell. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Blast Books, $c 2018. 300 $a 175 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a The pile albums of Peter A. Browne -- Animal and botanical -- Remarkable persons -- Presidents and other distinguished people -- Ethnology. 520 $a "Fifty years before Charles Darwin revolutionized understanding of the descent of man, Browne vigorously collected for study what he called the "pile" (from the Latin word for hair, pilus) of as wide a variety of humans (and animals) as possible in his quest to account for the differences and similarities between groups of humans. The result of his diligent, obsessive work is a fastidious, artfully assembled twelve-volume archive of mammalian diversity. Browne's growing quest for knowledge became an all-consuming specimen-collecting passion. By the time of his death in 1860, Browne had assembled samples from innumerable wild and domestic animals, as well as the largest known study collection of human hair. He obtained hair from people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life: artists, scientists, abolitionist ministers, -doctors, writers, politicians, financiers, and military -leaders, and even prisoners, sideshow -performers, and lunatics. His crowning achievement was a gathering of hair from each of the first fourteen presidents of the United States. The pages of his albums, some spare, some ornately decorated, many printed ducit amor patriae--patriotism leads me--are distinctly idiosyncratic, captivating, and powerfully evocative of a vanished world. Browne's albums have been sequestered in the archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia to which Brown bequeathed them, narrowly escaping destruction in the 1970s. They are a unique manifestation of the avid collecting instinct in nineteenth-century scientific endeavors to explain the mysteries of the natural world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Browne, Peter A. $q (Peter Arrell), $d 1782-1860 $x Natural history collections. 610 20 $a Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia $x Natural history collections. 600 17 $a Browne, Peter A. $q (Peter Arrell), $d 1782-1860. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01472244 610 27 $a Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00539244 650 0 $a Hair $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Hair $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Hair $v Catalogs and collections $z Philadelphia. $z Philadelphia. 650 7 $a Hair. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00950358 650 7 $a Hair $x Analysis. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00950360 650 7 $a Natural history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034268 651 7 $a Pennsylvania $z Philadelphia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204170 655 7 $a Catalogs and collections. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423697 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423697 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 700 1 $a Purcell, Rosamond Wolff, $e photographer. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81062664 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214024123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C8E00A22101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search