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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (322 p.) : 77 illustrations. 12 color and 65 black and white halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813547695
  • 9780813549927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 027.474932
LOC classification:
  • HT153 .S43 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Cultivating the Industrial City -- CHAPTER ONE. The Engine of Culture -- CHAPTER THREE. The Virtues of Industry -- CHAPTER FOUR. Molding and Modeling Civic Consumption -- CHAPTER FIVE. Weaving the New into the Old -- CHAPTER SIX. A Parade of Civic Virtue -- CONCLUSION. The Industrious Citizen -- NOTES
Summary: What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women. This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the founding of the Newark Museum Associationùa project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise their relevance, Made in Newark explores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era, and add value to the economy.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780813549927

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Cultivating the Industrial City -- CHAPTER ONE. The Engine of Culture -- CHAPTER THREE. The Virtues of Industry -- CHAPTER FOUR. Molding and Modeling Civic Consumption -- CHAPTER FIVE. Weaving the New into the Old -- CHAPTER SIX. A Parade of Civic Virtue -- CONCLUSION. The Industrious Citizen -- NOTES

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What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women. This is the story of experimental exhibitions in the library and the founding of the Newark Museum Associationùa project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with civics and consumption. Local artisans demonstrated crafts, connecting the cultural institution to the department store, school, and factory, all of which invoked the ideal of municipal patriotism. Today, as cultural institutions reappraise their relevance, Made in Newark explores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage in a multicultural era, and add value to the economy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)