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The Massachusetts Teacher...Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education

Description: One pamphlet, copyright 1852, entitled The Massachusetts Teacher...Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education, by Barnas Sears, published by Samuel Coolidge, Boston. Printed at the head of the title is: "Educational Department ... No. 2." The pamphlet is 24 numbered pages in length and is not illustrated. In it Sears highlights "errors and mistakes [which are] highly injurious" to effective instruction and presents "appropriate remedies" and other suggestions. The two titled sections of the report are "The Primary School" and "The Grammar School." The report ends with a general summary of statistics "relating to the Public Schools of the Commonwealth." It is signed "Barnas Sears, Secretary of the Board of Education", and dated Boston, December 10, 1851.
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Date: 1852

Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5-1879: American Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of 1876

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One pamphlet, copyright 1879, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5-1879: American Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of 1876, by Ferdinand Buisson, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 pages in length and is not illustrated. It concerns the findings of a commission of French school officials and teachers who, in 1876, were sent to the United States to study educational methods in connection with the Centennial Exhibition of that year. This pamphlet is a summary of the commission's 702-page report. One of the commission's observations was the match between American values and the school system then in place. The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. The ink stamp of the Essex Institute, dated March 8, 1880 is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education

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One pamphlet, published 1869, entitled The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education. Illustrated by a lecture of Cardinal Wiseman, on the relation of the arts of design with the arts of production, by Elizabeth P. Peabody, published(?) by Adams & Co., Boston. The subtitle reads "addressed to American workingmen and educators, with an essay on Froebel's reform of primary education." This pamphlet is 48 numbered pages in length, and is unbound.

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Industrial Drawing in Public Schools: A Course of Three Lectures Addressed to the Principals and Teachers of the Primary, Grammar, and High Schools of the City of Boston

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One pamphlet entitled Industrial Drawing in Public Schools: A Course of Three Lectures Addressed to the Principals and Teachers of the Primary, Grammar, and High Schools of the City of Boston, by Walter Smith, published by L. Prang and Company, Boston, 1875. Also on the title page is printed "Published by Request." This book is 54 numbered pages in length, and is divided into 3 sections, one for each of the three school levels. Each section addresses issues relevant to the teaching of drawing and industrial drawing in the schools. A few white-on-black reproductions of drawing cards from the Smith system are included in the book. The insides of both covers, as well as the back cover, are blank.

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Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art

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One pamphlet entitled Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art, Bess Eleanor Foster, Chairman, published by the Federated Council on Art Education, 1926. This report is 32 numbered pages in length; it is not illustrated. The first 7 pages include a list of related associations, a president's preface, a table of contents and an introduction. Several of the sections were written by named individuals, rather than the Council as a whole. There are ms. notes and annotations throughout. "Mabel Spofford, her book" is written in ms., in ink, on the bottom of the front cover.

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The Arts of Design: Especially as Related to Female Education

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One pamphlet, copyright 1857, entitled The Arts of Design: Especially as Related to Female Education, by J. A. Seiss, published by John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, Maryland. The subtitle reads: "An Address: deliberated in the Hall of the Maryland Institute, at the commencement of the Female Department of the School of Design, November 25th, 1856." The speaker encouraged women to enter the sphere of industrial arts and argued that "the 'Mechanic Arts' would improve both women's lot and the nation's economy." This 28-page pamphlet is unbound and not illustrated.

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Colored Crayons in Your School

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One pamphlet entitled Colored Crayons in Your School, by Fred Hamilton Daniels, published by Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, ca. 1930. This pamphlet is 16 numbered pages in length, including the back cover. The pamphlet discusses the use of color in the classroom, the importance of color in learning about art , and how to create art. The front cover is illustrated with a reproduction of a still life drawing of a platter and a vase. A publisher's statement regarding the intended use of the booklet is printed on the back cover. The booklet is illustrated with 6 color reproductions of images using colored pencils and crayons; much of the text discusses each of the images. "The Sparrell Print, Boston" is printed at the bottom inside the back cover.

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