The National Park Service Museum Management Program developed this virtual exhibit and companion art book in collaboration with over 50 participating national parks throughout the country.
Joan Bacharach, General Editor, Exhibit Curator, and Project Manager
Amber Dumler, Website Designer
Special thanks to:
Laura Anderson, Curator, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Site
Beth Miller, Curator, Thomas Edison National Historical Park
Dara Shore, Museum Technician, NPS Museum Management Program
and the many dedicated National Park Service staff responsible for park museum collections located at over 55 national parks
Essays in this book incorporate information from the National Park Service publications listed below.
Hitchcock, Ann. NPS Museums 1904–2004.
<http://www.nps.gov/museum/centennial/> April 2004.
Lewis, Ralph. Museum Curatorship in the National Park
Service, 1904–1982. Washington, DC: National Park
Service, 1993.
McGrath, Robert L. Art and the American Conservation
Movement. Special History Study, Northeast Museum
Services Center. Boston: National Park Service, 2001.
National Park Service. The National Parks: Shaping the System. Produced by Harpers Ferry Center, 2005.
_____. Museum Handbook, Part I, Museum Collections
Chapter 1: NPS Museums and Collections. Washington, DC: National Park Service. 2006.
_____. Park Profiles that summarize park museum
collections at <www.nps.gov/museum>
_____. Park Homepages available through <www.nps.gov>
_____. Virtual Exhibits that feature park museum
collections and virtual tours at <www.nps.gov/museum>
Formal titles for the artworks are in bold. Works without a formal title are in bold with the subject description in parentheses.
The images in this book depict works held in National Park Service (NPS) museum collections in a manner expressing the scholarly and interpretive views of the NPS. The NPS owns all works that are depicted in this publication; however some rights such as copyright may be held by individuals or entities other than NPS. The NPS reserves all applicable rights in this publication and the images displayed herein.