Myrtilla Avery
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 370
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Excerpt from Travelling Pictures and Schoolroom Decoration During the last 10 years an increasing interest in beautifying and decorating school interiors has been manifest and much has been accomplished both in the east and west. Till recently New England cities have probably been most active in the attempt to. Make more cheerful and inspiring the surroundings Of public school pupils and to inculcate during the impressionable years Of youth 3 love for the beautiful and an appreciation of the principles of art. New York however is the first state to take up the subject of schoo'lroom deco ration. During the last three years the University has had this work in charge and has circulated among high schools, academies and libraries, photographs Of great paintings, architectural monuments, and historical portraits. The traveling picture system was a natural outgrowth Of the traveling libraries started in 1892. Schools that had used the traveling libraries asked for pictures to illustrate farther the topics studied and when these were provided, both in the form of hand photographs and lantern slides, large pictures to hang on the walls were wanted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
