Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1983 - 2/28/1985

Funding Totals

$96,650.00 (approved)
$96,650.00 (awarded)


History of the Silk Industry in Paterson, New Jersey (Implementation)

FAIN: GM-21710-83

American Labor Museum (Haledon, NJ 07508)
John Herbst (Project Director: December 1982 to October 1990)

To support three interrelated exhibits at three local sites using photographs, artifacts, and documents to interpret a silk mill, a worker's home, and the mill owner's home in the context of the industrial history from 1841 to 1920 inAmerica's major center of silk production, Paterson, New Jersey.