World's fair exhibit books, 1893.

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World's fair exhibit books, 1893.

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Exhibit books compiled for the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Ill., in 1893. Books include school work from first to twelfth grade classes, with photographs of each class in their best clothes, usually with their teacher; some teaching plans; students' work with their signature, date (Feb.-March 1893), age, number of months they studied the subject, and the time it took to complete the work. Topics covered include: penmanship, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, and United States history (1st-8th grades). 9th-10th graders' work includes: aglebra, American literature, English composition, Latin, German, botany (including drawings of plants and cells), and physiology (including drawings of human eyes and lungs). Cicero, Virgil, Greek, physics, chemistry, general history, rhetorics, English literature, German, trigonometry, and geometry were covered by 11th-12th graders. Schools involved included: Houghton, Emerson, Salina, Crary, Potter, Central, Germania, Jones, Hoyt, and Sweet primary schools, and the High School.

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