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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press
2010.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1b4cx0p |
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.