Mrs. Stanford in the Nile: The Legacy of the Stanford Family's Collection Practices in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century.

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. In this essay, Cole Maxwell discusses the collection practices of Stanford family and the Cantor Art Center's collection of Egyptian antiquities—connecting both to themes of colonialism and exploitation—before ultimately arguing for better representation of these objects in their original cultural, spiritual, and social meanings.

Type of resource	text
Date created	2020

Author	Maxwell, Cole
Advisor	Otalvaro, Gigi

Subject	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Subject	Egypt
Subject	antiquities
Subject	Cantor Arts Center
Genre	Article

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/th186pk1027

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Preferred Citation: Maxwell, Cole and Otalvaro, Gigi. (2020). Mrs. Stanford in the Nile: The Legacy of the Stanford Family's Collection Practices in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/th186pk1027

Boothe Prize Winners, Stanford University

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