An American cabinet of curiosities : Thomas Jefferson's "Indian Hall" at Monticello / Joyce Henri Robinson -- "And a little child shall lead them" : American children's cabinets of curiosities / Shirley Teresa Wajda -- Dreaming in commerce : advertising trade card scrapbooks / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Collecting the nation : visions of nationalism in two Civil War-era photograph albums / Andrea L. Volpe -- The curious cabinet of Dr. Morton / Ann Fabian -- Collecting Mr. Ayer's narrative / Carolyn Kastner -- En/gendering the Whitney's collection of American art / Evelyn C. Hankins -- Small mercies : Colleen Moore's doll house and the National Charity Tour / Leslie Paris -- Tradition and the individual memory : the case of Christian C. Sanderson / Teresa Barnett -- All buy our selves at household auctions / Lisa A. Long -- American icons : photographs / by Carrie Mae Weems -- Exhibiting Nazi artifacts and challenging traditional museum culture : a conversation with Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. / Gregory Maertz -- The serial killer as collector / Sara Knox