Images of Old Age in America, 1790-1977

FAIN: GM-11059-77

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Harold Johnson (Project Director: June 1977 to present)

Exhibit seeks to communicate to the general public, through the use of graphics, photographs, excerpts from literary and historical documents, and original text, the historical development of cultural values and attitudes toward the elderly in the U.S. and to explore the relationship between the perception and the reality of old age in each era.