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Book, Plan of the Proposed Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration

This is a Book.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Cooper Union Library as part of Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

It is dated 1896. Its medium is ink on bound paper. It is a part of the department.

Elizabeth Bisland, a journalist and friend of the Hewitt sisters, wrote a document in 1896 titled Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. She emphasized: “It is as an educator of the public standard of taste that this museum hopes to do its best work . . . by collecting beautiful specimens of art applied to industry.”

It is credited The Cooper Union Archives and Special Collections.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

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