Answers to inquiries about the U.S. Bureau of Education, its work and history prepared, under the direction of the Commissioner / by Charles Warren.

  • United States. Bureau of Education.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Answers to inquiries about the U.S. Bureau of Education, its work and history prepared, under the direction of the Commissioner / by Charles Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    senting statistical facts to tlie eye are shown in the statistical room. On one wall of another room a case of dark wood and bevelled glass shows an artist’s collection of clay models, from the unskilled hands of child and adult, savage and civilized, of every race in ourdand, to the exquisite work of well trained eyes and fingers. Near this a second case contains the artistic handwork of children in Mr. Charles G. Leland’s school ah Philadelphia, where repoussfi plaques and carved panels of wood and a well moulded and tinted vase stand out from a background of embossed leather and embroidered cloth. A group of photographs showing the home and labor of nurses in a training school surrounds the picture of Miss Nightingale on one wall; close by are photographs indicating the successful education of Indian boys and girls in the practical arts of civilized life at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, where Lieutenant Pratt’s humane and vigorous mind has organized a wonderful Government school. A small, dark cabinet, bearing only “ J. A. G.” on its face, attracts the eye; opened, it shows the martyred President Garfield’s likeness, and the inner sides of the black doors are inscribed with the dates of his birth, education, employment as teacher, service in the Army, and in the House of Representatives, election to the Senate, inauguration, and death.* 1 Articles of various kinds follow the line of the stairways; globes stand in the corners of the landings. A high glass cabinet in one of the halls contains artificial flowers made in German orphan | asylums. Portraits and busts of educators and benefactors to educa- I tion are continually seen wherever space permits them to be placed. | Notable among these articles is a series of models showing the devolop- |! ment and improvement of farming implements from the earliest times < and in all nations down to the present day. In another room are col- itis engraving, with larger copies of the inscriptions surrounding it, formed part |i of the mourning decorations on the outer wall of the office building in September 1 1881, ’ 2674 2