American Pastimes

FAIN: GM-10779-76

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Marilyn F. Hoffman (Project Director: November 1976 to present)

To provide an opportunity for humanists from five disciplines who are all interested in the same subject - leisure and recreation in 19th century America - to meet and stimulate each other by working together on an exhibition, catalogue and lecture series. To give an historian, an anthropologist, a psychologist and a language arts person the chance to work with original objects and with art history.