Author: HOROWITZ, HELEN LEFKOWITZ
Title: Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917
Description: Lexington, University Press of Kentucky. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 081311344X) Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, In this study Professor Horowitz examines the idealistic understanding of culture that prevailed in the United States before the turn of the century and relates this conception to the establishment and development of Chicago's city-wide cultural institutions. Index. Grey buckram covers, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket not price clipped, light edgewear. Inscription possibly by author on title page. Some very slight browning to pages and dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: 081311344x Social Sciences; Chicago, Jane Addams, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, Edward Ayer, Daniel Burnham, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Field Columbian Museum, Henry Blake Fuller, William Rainey Harper, Robert Herrick, Charles Hutchins


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