Instituting reform : the Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931 / edited by Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunière ; with contributions by Elspeth H. Brown [and others].

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Instituting reform : the Social Museum of Harvard University, 1903-1931 / edited by Deborah Martin Kao and Michelle Lamunière ; with contributions by Elspeth H. Brown [and others].

Publication:

Description:

287 pages : illustrations, color map ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 280) and index.
Introduction: Francis Greenwood Peabody and the age of photography / Anthony W. Lee -- Portfolio I: The Social Museum -- Sentiment and science: Francis Greenwood Peabody and the Social Museum in context / Michelle Lamunière -- Portfolo II: Poor relief -- Making "social facts" visible in the early progressive era: the Harvard Social Museum and its counterparts / Julie K. Brown -- Portfolio III: Social justice -- Wayward, shiftless and excitable/vagrant, idle and disorderly: en-gendering reformatory photography / Deborah Martin Kao -- Portfolio IV: Industrial and urban betterment -- Labor, management and photography as "social hieroglyphic": the National Cash Register Company and the Social Museum collection / Elspeth H. Brown -- Appendix: The Social Museum as an instrument of university teaching / Francis Peabody (1911).

ISBN:

9781891771590 (Harvard Art Museums ; alk. paper)
1891771590 (Harvard Art Museums ; alk. paper)
9780300171068 (Yale University Press (distributor) ; alk. paper)
0300171064 (Yale University Press (distributor) ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Harvard University. Social Museum History.
Harvard University Social Museum.
Harvard University. Social Museum Histoire.
Harvard University Collections de photographies.
Harvard University. Social Museum
Documentary photography United States History 20th century.
Museums history
Social Welfare history
Social Change history
History, 20th Century
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Documentary photography
United States

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Kao, Deborah Martin.
Lamunière, Michelle.

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Location: Library main 277618
Call No.: BIB 212481
Status: Available

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