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The Collectors
 Collecting—everybody does it! From pennies in a jar to the
finest antiques, most people collect something. Individuals collect for the
sake of learning, beauty, wealth and entertainment. What we collect is a
reflection of who we are and how we view our world.
 The museum values collections for the history that they
convey. It may use objects assembled as private collections to provide a
history of decorative themes, to document technological change over time, or
to present period furnishings that exemplify what life was like during a
particular era.
Thanks for the Memories presents a sample of
artifacts from the collections of four individual
donors to the Michigan Historical Museum. Visit their collections —
China collecting is not a mere fancy—it
is an education, and the resulting collection is a record of a people’s
progress that appeals to us as no other line of collecting relics could.
—Florence Smalley Babbitt
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