Blazing New Trails drawings and other material 1937-1939

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Blazing New Trails drawings and other material 1937-1939

The Blazing New Trails drawings and other material consists mostly of sketches used as in illustrations in Hoke's book. The 78 sketches in the collection were done by students at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (RAMI) and complement the scenes described in Hoke's text. The collection also contains several clippings including an article on Hoke and two book reviews for Blazing New Trails. There is also a folder of miscellaneous documents that contains three reproductions of the original sketches. Original drawings for the book Blazing New Trails: The Biography of a Pioneer in Education (1937) by George Wilson Hoke. The collection includes 78 of the drawings used in Hoke's book, which traced the institutional history of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Also included are several book reviews and a brief biographical sketch of Hoke.

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Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute

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Hoke, George Wilson

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George Wilson Hoke was an American academic and author during the early 20th century. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1901, before becoming chair of Miami University's new Department of Geography in 1906. His paper, "The Study of Social Geography" (1907) was one of the first instances of the phrase "social geography" being used in a Western culture. During World War I, Hoke served on the U.S. Committee on Education and Special Training. While working with the army, he met John Ran...

Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...