Identifier: worldalmanacency1904newy (find matches)
Title: The World almanac and encyclopedia
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Almanacs, American Statistics
Publisher: New York : Press Pub. Co. (The New York World)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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tward fron\ the Ad-ministration Building are being converted into a kind of ijark, in -which will h3 locatedhabitations erected and occupied by various primitive tribes, aboriginal workshops, earlytypes of buildings frona which architectural standards arose. The outdoor exhibit will dis-play the leading types of mankind as well as the principal stages in the progress of peo-ples, and thus complement the greater features and motives of the Exposition. A special feeature will be an Indian School Exhibit, illustrating the ways in which thestudy of human progress has been applied to the education of the natives of that vast terri-tory embraced in the Louisiana purchase. In modern Indian education, manual training andmental culture go hand in hand. The Industrial Building will be largely devoted to theExposition of an Indian school in practical operation, with its adjuncts of carpentry, smith-ing, tailoring, household methods and industrial occupations essential to well-rounded citi- ^■A
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OFF THE TRAILr—BY REMINGTON. zenship, opposite to which typical aboriginal industries, skin dressing, basket weaving,pottery making, stone chipping, &c., will be exhibited in action by aged experts. Theancient arrow-maker and his grandson, engaged in wagon-making, working together underthe same roof, illustrate the great advance made by the red man since Columbus came, andafford a means of measuring the rate as well as the extent of human progress. The In-dustrial Building erected by Indian pupils trained in the Government School at Chilocco,will be an exhibit of itself. While the active principle of the department is that of illustration by living groups, theexhibit will be supplemented by one historical and two archaeological sections. In the formerwill be assembled books, manuscripts, maps and photographs recording the successivestages in human culture and depicting types of mankind; in the latter section the records GUIDE TO THE EXPOSITION CONTLNUED ON PAGE LVIII. Ivi MANUFA

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