AMST 205 Project Five

Greenbelt Museum Website Exhibit

Your final project is to construct an exhibit for Virtual Greenbelt. Virtual Greenbelt is a Web site based on the Greenbelt Museum in Greenbelt, Maryland. It was begun by the AMST 205 class in the fall of 1995 and has been added to by students in three other classes as well as faculty and graduate students in the American Studies Department. Excellent projects from this class will be added to the permanent collection.

Your exhibit may be either artifact centered or theme centered. You may choose an artifact or group of artifacts and use the Fleming model to write labels for your exhibit. Or, you may choose a theme and choose artifacts in the museum and elsewhere to illustrate your exhibit. You are expected to apply the field analysis techniques and the computer skills learned during the semester to present your conclusions in a formal manner.


You are expected to use primary documents to provide information about your artifacts and to support your themes. The Tugwell Room in the Greenbelt Public Library has a wide variety of material about Greenbelt, including copies of local newspapers, photographs, and books. The Maryland Room at the McKeldin Library on campus may also provide useful information. Catalogs, newspapers and magazines of the period are other useful sources. Don't forget the readings that have been assigned this term as secondary sources for your work.

Please note, you may find some material available on the Internet through collector's web sites or company sites. But do not rely entirely on the Internet for the documentation of your project. See the Resources page for information about citing web sites.

You may also interview family members or community residents who can tell you about the use of artifacts during the period 1937-1945. Be sure to document your exhibit with footnotes that cite your sources.

Grading

This exhibit is worth 25% of your grade for the term.

The First Draft of your exhibit is due on Tuesday, May 6 by class time and will count for 10 points of your grade. You should have a substantial portion of your exhibit completed at this time. We will discuss each project and you will have the opportunity to revise and re-work your exhibit based on comments and suggestions that you receive in class.

The Final version of your exhibit is due on Tuesday, May 13. It should include two links to other student projects as well as appropriate background and images. Be sure to acknowledge your sources in footnotes or endnotes, and provide a bibliography of the works that you consulted.

This may be an individual or a team effort. You may form curatorial teams of two or three people, but we will then expect your exhibit to reflect the work of several people, either in more breadth or more depth than the exhibit of an individual. Curatorial teams may choose to receive the grade of the project, or members may choose to receive individual grades based upon each person's contribution.



STUDENT PROJECTS

vj01 - Infant Care
vj03 - Refrigerator
vj04 - Baseball bats
vj05 - Tobacco Products
vj07 - Baseball Glove
vj08 - Doing Laundry
vj10 - Phonograph
vj11 - Men's Hats
vj12 - Automobile Repair Tools
vj13 - Phonograph
vj14 - Lawn Mower
vj15 - Popeye
vj16 - Coffee Making
vj17 - Tennis Raquet
vj19 - Kodak Camera
vj20 - Telephone 		vj21 - Washing Machine
vj22 - Razor Sharpener
vj23 - Civil defense
vj24 -
vj26 -
vj27 - Mix master
vj28 - Women's hats/hairstyles
vj29 - Bicycle
vj30 - Refrigerator
vj32 - Daily dishware
vj41 - Newspapers
vj42 - Watches
vj43 - Oral hygiene
vj44 - Garage
vj45 - Saturday Evening Post
vj46 - Train Set