Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1984 - 6/30/1986

Funding Totals

$11,090.00 (approved)
$11,090.00 (awarded)


A Permanent Exhibit on the History of American Manufacture in the 19th Century

FAIN: GM-22062-84

Eli Whitney Museum (Hamden, CT 06517-0099)
Karyl L. Hall (Project Director: November 1983 to October 1990)

To support planning for a permanent exhibit exploring how entrepreneurship, in-ventiveness, workmanship, and social conditions interacted to produce changes in the process of American manufacture in the 19th century, and how those changes affected American life.