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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2002
By the middle of the nineteenth century cities were becoming sufficiently conscious of their past to install busts, shafts, and other memorials in parks and public buildings. Art schools began to develop in Newark and its suburbs; associations for the collection and exhibition of pictures were formed; and in several cities there was considerable sentiment for the erection of museums.
New crafts developed from changing industry. The looms of Paterson wove especially beautiful silk fabrics; terra cotta factories in Perth Amboy turned out decorative products of a high order. Leather workers in Newark produced fine hand-tooled work, and jewelry manufacture in that city was lifted above a commercial enterprise by skill in designing and unusually gifted workmanship. In the wake of these followed several other craft industries which included the world-renowned Lenox china of Trenton, the Edgewater tapestry looms, whose hand-woven products have been praised as "American Gobelins," and the fine stained glass and ecclesiastical brasses made by the J. and R. Lamb Studios in Tenafly.
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