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

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

by Cheryl R. Ganz (Editor), Margaret Strobel (Editor), Vicki L. Ruiz (Foreword)

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 Four in-depth essays stand side-by-side with 131 color and black-and-white photographs, many of them previously unpublished, to reveal the untold story of Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, at one time the largest Mexican settlement in Chicago.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, Peggy Glowacki, and Rick A. Lopez

168 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2004

About the author

Cheryl R. Ganz is retired as the chief curator of philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. She was the curator and designer of the "Pots of Promise" exhibition for the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and is the author of The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress.