Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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ake merry, toasting theabsent, drinking to the health of those present, passing the evening in harmlessrevelry and song. One of the most interesting and instructive features of the Exhibition isthe evidence it affords of how our young republic, in its one hundred yearsof existence, has thrown off the simplicity of living necessary in its early dayswhen existence was a long struggle with poverty, and with increasing wealthand prosperity is gathering to itself the most costly and elegant appliances formaking life not only comfortable but luxurious, which money can buy. In everyquarter of the world the invention of the artist and sculptor and artisan istaxed to supply the demand which wealth and culture make upon every branchof manufacture to give us of the best that can be produced. And our ownworkmen, though lacking the facilities for study and self-education to be had 6o THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1S76. on the Continent, are so constantly receiving into their ranks foreign artisans
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Punch-bowl ana Goblets: Meriden Britannia Company. of the best class, that their joint work, which may fairly be called productionsof American industry, compare favorably with European examples. In nothing is this desire for sumptuous articles of use more apparent than INDUSTRIAL ART. 61

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