Made in Newark : Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era.

Made in Newark : Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era.

Made in Newark describes a changing industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century, when the city's outspoken library director, John Cotton Dana, collaborated with industrialists, social workers, and New Women to reconfigure a cultural institution for a city in flux. This is the story of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shales, Ezra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dana, John Cotton, > 1856-1929 > Political and social views.
Dana, John Cotton, > 1856-1929
Newark Public Library > History.
Newark Museum > History.
Newark Museum
Newark Public Library
Public libraries > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Museums > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Librarians > New Jersey > Newark > Biography.
Museum directors > New Jersey > Newark > Biography.
Libraries and community.
Museums and community.
Arts and crafts movement > United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > Archives & Special Libraries.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Arts and crafts movement
Librarians
Libraries and community
Museum directors
Museums
Museums and community
Political and social views
Public libraries
New Jersey > Newark
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : cultivating the industrial city
  • The engine of culture
  • The business of culture
  • The virtues of industry
  • Molding and modeling civic consumption : clay industries of New Jersey, 1915
  • Weaving the new into the old : textile industries of New Jersey, 1916
  • A parade of civic virtue
  • Conclusion : the industrious citizen.

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