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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

10/1/1975 - 10/31/1976

Funding Totals

$33,500.00 (approved)
$33,500.00 (awarded)

On the Job in Illinois: Then and Now

FAIN: GM-10587-75

Illinois Labor History Society (Chicago, IL 60604-2217)
Leslie F. Orear (Project Director: October 1975 to present)

To create a photographic collection depicting Illinois workers on their jobs and in the industrial environment. Historical and contemporary material is to be combined to illustrate changes in the nature of work and the workplace. Also depicted will be relationship of workers to industrial processes. A traveling exhibition of 100 photographs are to tour the state during the Bicentennial. Exhibition centers will be in such public places as shopping malls. A catalogue is to accompany the exhibit.