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Instituting Reform: The Social Museum Of Harvard University, 1903 1931

Instituting Reform: The Social Museum Of Harvard University, 1903 1931

Jenna Webster
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Instituting Reform examines the history, motive, and meaning of Harvard's distinctive Social Museum, established in 1903 by Francis Greenwood Peabody to "collect the social experience of the world as material for university teaching." The more than 5,000 photographs and graphic illustrations that survive, including works by Lewis Hine and Frances Benjamin Johnston, are now held by the Harvard Art Museums.The book's five essays probe the Social Museum's collection, using it as a case study to explore the early institutional uses of photographs as social documents, the systematization of exhibition display by reform organizations, and the role such institutions played in the formation of the modern research university. The museum promoted the study of philanthropic, social, and industrial progress through the inductive method of observation common in the sciences. As the authors demonstrate, however, the social "truths" made evident were strongly influenced by prevailing values and tensions of the Progressive Era.
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Huam
Release
March 27, 2012
ISBN
0300083157
ISBN 13
9780300083156

Instituting Reform: The Social Museum Of Harvard University, 1903 1931

Jenna Webster
3.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Instituting Reform examines the history, motive, and meaning of Harvard's distinctive Social Museum, established in 1903 by Francis Greenwood Peabody to "collect the social experience of the world as material for university teaching." The more than 5,000 photographs and graphic illustrations that survive, including works by Lewis Hine and Frances Benjamin Johnston, are now held by the Harvard Art Museums.The book's five essays probe the Social Museum's collection, using it as a case study to explore the early institutional uses of photographs as social documents, the systematization of exhibition display by reform organizations, and the role such institutions played in the formation of the modern research university. The museum promoted the study of philanthropic, social, and industrial progress through the inductive method of observation common in the sciences. As the authors demonstrate, however, the social "truths" made evident were strongly influenced by prevailing values and tensions of the Progressive Era.
Pages
320
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Huam
Release
March 27, 2012
ISBN
0300083157
ISBN 13
9780300083156

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