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
Summary
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 experimental library exhibitions and the founding of the Newark Museum Association-a project in which cultural literacy was intertwined with lessons in civics and consumption. It explores precedents for contemporary debates over the ways the library and museum engage communities, define heritage
