Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 12/31/1992

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$300,000.00 (approved)
$300,000.00 (awarded)


The Development of the Textile Factory System in America

FAIN: GM-22828-86

Museum of American Textile History (North Andover, MA 01845-4544)
Laurence F. Gross (Project Director: June 1985 to April 1993)

To support the implementation of a permanent exhibition on the development of the textile factory system in the United States showing how labor was transformed by power technology.