Harvard University's distinctive Social Museum was established in 1903 by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) 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. Instituting Reform focuses an exacting lens on the Social Museum's history, motive, and meaning. Punctuated by generous portfolio sections, the book's five ...
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Harvard University's distinctive Social Museum was established in 1903 by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847-1936) 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. Instituting Reform focuses an exacting lens on the Social Museum's history, motive, and meaning. Punctuated by generous portfolio sections, the book's five essays probe the 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. Published by Harvard Art Museums/Distributed by Yale University Press
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VG+ (light edge-wear to boards, corners & dustjacket. ) Three-quarters stamped gray paper boards, orange cloth spine, illus. dust jacket that opens up to reveal on verso same graphic map as depicted on flyleaves, 287 pp., 211 color illus. The purpose of Harvard's Social Museum was "to collect the social experience of the world as material for university teaching." Through its fine essays, this book explores the museum's role and the scope of its collection, which relied highly on "photographs as social documents." Its "social 'truths' made evident were strongly influenced by prevailing values and tensions of the Progressive era." (dj).
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