Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40

By: Strobel, Margaret

Book Overview

Pots of Promise delves into the Hull-House arts programs of the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns. Four in-depth essays stand side-by-side with 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, to reveal the untold story of Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, at one time the largest Mexican settlement in Chicago.

Contributors: David A. Badillo, Cheryl R. Ganz,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252071972
• ISBN13: 9780252071973
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"