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Kansas---early one room school for 8 grades... One teacher.
Author Avis Carlson, in her book, Small World Long Gone, illustrates the quality of education around 1907 for the first 8-grades-------in a building such as these.
I will give you one of several examples in the book of qualifying test questions:
"Two of arithmetic's ten questions asked us to find the interest on an eight-per-cent note for $900 running 2 years, 2 months, 6 days..." !!!!
And, they diagrammed sentences from Shakespeare!!:: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" as an example.
And, further, they were pronounce and give the meaning of such words as: "zenith, deviated, coliseum, panegyric, Spartan, talisman, eerie, Triton, crypt......"
On an on....
Avis passed the 8th grade qualifying test at 11 years, 8 months of age.... !!!!!!!!!! [Her book: ISBN 0-911694-00-5]
To Continue:
HISTORY: All states in America settled under the Northwest Ordinance had Townships of 36 sections, each 1-square mile is size, for the exclusive use of the common schools. These schools were constructed on sections numbered 16 and 36 on the survey maps. Those two sections were owned by the schools. Income form the land help fund those learning centers
Walking from other sections was considered reasonable distance for children!
I suspect they would have to have spent, at most, an hour or so walking to and from school.
Realize that is less than kids now spend on buses. And those former kids did not suffer from obesity. Is this progress....?????
HISTORY---continued.
In Kansas the school issue was codified as Article 1 our Constitution. I find that significant--the very FIRST item!!! IMPORTANT perhaps?!
Previous to that, the Northwest Ordinance, which was the Federal Government's legal instrument to create states, designated sections 16 and 36 for the common schools.
These sections were to help fund the cost of schools, and were to be for the 'EXCLUSIVE' use of those schools.
If the land was sold, at least in the Kansas, another piece of land, of equal value, had to be purchased with the proceeds of the sale--for 'perpetual' use for the schools.....
That did NOT happen.................................. READ ON......
America's education system is in trouble... it has moved from "learning" to "feelings".
By all standards of modern testing, current high school students know less than they did 100 years ago.
The 8th-grade in 1907 was the equivalent to a 2015 high school diploma, and more...!
TO REVIEW WHAT WAS STATED INITIALLY:
Sample questions from a Kansas school from 1907 for 8th grade qualifying:
Math--'find the interest on an 8% note for $900 running 2 years', 2 months, 6 days;...
English--analyze and diagram -[Shakespeare!]: '"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."' There are others.
Avis Carlson passed the test at 11 years 8 months of age. The school from which she graduated was similar to this building, one room for 8 grades and one teacher.
[Source of quotes: Small World Long Gone by Avis Carlson, ISBN 0-911694-00-5, pg. 83. ]
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Addendum: This building has been razed.
This may be one of the last photos of this school in such a dilapidated state. It probably has not been used for decades.
REALIZE the Ordinance stated the two sections were for the purpose of funding schools ownership was 'Perpetual' for the common schools.
In Kansas, due to 'politics', the 16/36 sections were eventually sold, and several years ago all the funds were put into Kansas teachers retirement fund [KPERS] as the 'employers' contribution.
The land, therefore, is not, in perpetuity, FOR aiding in the funding of student education in Kansas. It is for the teachers.
Now school lobbyists are clamoring for more cash, usually for infrastructure. But modern NEA [a lobby] schools are not delivering anything close to the quality of student the meager building above produced.
Most school expenditures are for real estate, feeding children that should be fed by parents, and transporting them to and from school. I call this 'nanny' government instead of rugged individualism. The call for 'equality' violates the bigger reason for America, FREEDOM to exercise, or not, our talents as children and as adults.
In a word, SOCIALISM. This political philosophy has NOT worked any place on the planet.
Paul Johnson's NY Times Book of the Year, Modern Times, makes the statement that 125 million people died unnatural deaths, world-wide, between 1920 and 1990 due to socialism.
Controlling education is the way to change a culture. That is exactly what has, and is, happening.
How such machinations occur is beyond me.
I guess voters are asleep, really asleep.
I guess politicians don't read fundamental law.
In sum, politics stinks but the REAL FAULT LIES WITH THE PEOPLE. WE ARE INHERITING, GENERATION BY GENERATION, THE LACK OF THE BENEFITS OF FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE. I BELIEVE IT IS BY DESIGN, AND THE MODERN ARCHITECT IS JOHN DEWEY, THE FATHER OF MODERN EDUCATION, WHO WAS A FABIAN SOCIALIST. Look him up for yourself.
NOTE: I have original documents as to these facts for anyone interested. Contact me.
We took our grandson to a good-size rock and mineral show yesterday, and we all came home with some specimens. I collect the stones that are rounded and polished [as well as round and UNpolished, from beaches].
The effect here is "illustration", a look I really like.
Classics Illustrated / Heft-Reihe
Emerson Hough / The Covered Wagon
cover: ?
Gilberton Company / USA 1956
ex libris MTP
I was really amazed at this model's ease and comfort. She is great to work with!!
There are so many from our shoot (3 looks) that I want to post, but in time..in time.
I am off to NY today...maybe I'll post one tommorow, maybe I won't ... :)
Have a great one! Peace.
Direct scan of the graphic used to illustrate the back cover of the book and the Advent calender included with "The Story of Christmas," adapted by Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Augie Napoli, 1973.
I found this book in a used bookstore in California, with the stand-alone fold out calendar. It has a Scripture-based reading for the 24 days before Christmas, and lavish illustrations. I read from this book to each of my two kids for years and years as part of our family's Advent devotions.
Freightliner 66618 'Railways Illustrated Annual Photographic Awards' with classmate 66601 'The Hope Valley' leading the train is seen passing Craigmill, near Stirling with the top of the Wallace Monument behind on the 18th June 2020 with 6K33 14:00 Alloa to Millerhill S.S., ballast train.
This train was scheduled to depart as the second train, 6K32 14:36 departure from Alloa but was stepped up to the 6K33 path due to delays in dropping the new ballast onto the renewed track bed at Kincardine. The origional 6K33 departed as 6Z33 18:20 Alloa to Millerhill S.S. with 66547 in charge.
WE illustrate one of several goods locomotives built from the designs of Mr. J. Cleminson, engineer-in-chief for the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway.
The gauge of the railway is 5ft. 6in., constructed by Messrs. R and W. Hawthorn, of Newcastle. These engines are mounted on eight wheels, of which six are coupled together, and have a diameter of 4ft. 3in. on the tread, the middle pair of wheels being without flanges. The leading wheels are 2ft. 5in. diameter on tread, and are mounted on Mr. Cleminson's arrangement of radial axle.
The Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway will bring into direct communication the whole of the railways in the Argentine Republic save the East Argentine Railway, and is destined to become an important feature in the development of this wonderfully rich region. Its greatest importance lies in that it will become the highway between Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso, for it is part of an original and complete scheme conceived by Mr. Mateo Clark and his brother for the uniting of these two leading centers in South America. Messrs. Clark held the concession for the construction of this railway and for that portion of the system represented by the line under consideration, as well as of the railway now being made by the Government from the Andes termination of the Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway to the city of Mendoza; they also hold the concession for the railway from Mendoza over the Andes to join the Chilian lines, the work of which latter section will involve some of the boldest feats in engineering. When this gigantic scheme is completed - and it is now in a fair way to that end - the journey between the cities of Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso will be shortened by ten days, a boon which travelers and commerce alike will hail with satisfaction.
Illustration by John Swain for "The Engineer" from May 30, 1884
Creator: Esther Paterson
Location: Queensland, Australia
Description: Coloured drawing by Esther Paterson depicting a young couple either getting married, or just married.
View this page at the State Library of Queensland hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/224881
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/
sent by Britta in Hagen, Germany
on 15 Mar, 2020
travel time 4 days
distance traveled 1,536 km
received on Mar 19, 2020
Back lit with 2 bare strobes and a silver umbrella from the front.
Portland OR Photographer Alleh Lindquist
To license any of my photos please contact me at info(at)allehphotography.com
An advertisement from the February 29, 1896 issue of The Indianapolis Woman: An Illustrated Journal.
Illustrated by Marguerite Davis. “Summer Fun” copyright 1932, by J. Mace Andress and Annie Turner Andress. Ginn and Company.
This photograph was published in Truth Dig.com on March 17, 2016 to illustrate the article "City of Los Angeles Continues to Invade Homeless Camp Despite Federal Lawsuit", and again in Truth Dig to illustrate the article "How a Canadian City Eradicated Homelessness with One Revolutionary Idea" published on April 27, 2016.
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/city_of_los_angeles_...
www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/how_a_city_in_canada...
Also published June 15, 2016 in LA Curbed.com "County Leaders Issue Plea for 'State of Emergency' on Homelessness"
la.curbed.com/2016/6/15/11942920/emergency-state-homeless...
Also used by Meme News to illustrate LA Homeless bill (link below)
memenews.me/2016/02/11/l-a-homeless-bill/
Published as well in an academic paper of the Tel Aviv University in Israel.
urbanologia.tau.ac.il/%D7%94%D7%93%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%A...
Also published in the Canadian labor union organization site to illustrate an open letter to Justin Trudeau { link below}
www.csn.qc.ca/actualites/lalena-doit-permettre-une-hausse...
I finished a manuscript on Monday and I was cleaning my office up today - paper was everywhere. A piece of the cherry tree I was pruning earlier had apparently been torn off and stuck to my sweater. Must have fallen off onto a stack of papers and when I sat down to chat with my daughter for a second she said "illustrated mauscript?"
So ... well.
I stuck the page to the window, waited for afternoon light and made this shot.
Best large, seems to me.
original stock image from GregoryButler at pixabay
messing around combining two techniques trying to go a certain way and ended up this way ! ! ! !
I'm involved in a workshop through 2 Lil Owls called 'Illustrated'. In this workshop we use passages from books and then find a way to illustrate that passage. This is from the book, "A Starless Sea". It's about 'old books and birds made from the pages flying out of a card catalog'. I mostly use items I find or can make from things I find around my house.
Illustrating the vast as well as painful gulf of contradictions and lack of connection between the wretched poor and privileged wealth in the streets of Bangladesh.
Azimpur Neighborhood
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The practice of choking and strangulation techniques is a subtle art that requires more attention to detail than many other skills in Judo. Yet most texts on Judo do little to enlighten the conscientious student on the finer points of choking and strangulation. Most in fact imply that any pressure on the neck that makes the opponent give up is a good choke.
Creator: E. S. Watson
Location: Queensland, Australia
Description: Caption: Toowoomba Show number. Illustration of a man with notebook and pencil and a judge's ribbon pinned to his lapel, contemplating a display of fruit.
View this page at the State Library of Queensland hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/225246
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Creator: The Queenslander Magazine.
Location: Queensland.
Description: An advertisement for sewing patterns for women's clothing made available through mail order from The Queenslander Pattern Service.
Caption: New for Christmas
View the original image at the State Library of Queensland: hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/225106.
Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: www.slq.qld.gov.au/research-collections.
You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
Classics Illustrated / Heft-Reihe
Francis Parkman / The Oregon Trail
cover: ?
art: Henry C. Kiefer
Gilberton Company / USA 1956
ex libris MTP
www.comics.org/issue/1215819/#1364272
www.flickr.com/photos/mickythepixel/25383971166/in/datepo...
Flickr Lounge ~ Letters
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If ever a church illustrates the wealth of the Norfolk wool trade in the medieval period it is St. Mary's in Worstead, the village that gave its name to the high quality worsted yarn and tweed. St. Mary's is easily one of the most impressive medieval churches in Norfolk, and a testament to the wealth the wool trade brought to the region. Cloth was made locally as early as the 13th. century, but an influx of Flemish weavers in the following century made Worstead a centre of the wool trade and a major producer of woollen cloth.
Though the building was begun in the early 14th. century and remodelled later that century after the devastating effects of the Black Death had begun to wane, the church we see today is a product of the 15th. century, when Perpendicular Gothic was the fashion. The one exception is the chancel with its huge Decorated east window. The 15th. century additions included a superb hammer-beam roof, supported on wall corbels. The corbels are decorated with coats of arms to church patrons, including the families of Rous, Stapleton, Thurlow, and Wharton, plus St. Benet's Abbey and Norwich Cathedral.
The churches most stunning feature is the late medieval chancel screen, inserted in the early 16th. century. The screen is painted with 16 figures, among them the rare figure of St. William of Norwich.
William's cult was controversial, in that it involved the first accusations of ritual murder by Jews in medieval Britain. William of Norwich (1132-1144) was a young boy, an apprentice tanner, whose work brought him into contact with the small Jewish community in Norwich. His body was found on Mousehold Heath, outside Norwich, apparently murdered. The local residents accused the Jewish population of Norwich of murdering William in a form of ritual sacrifice, a tale that was embellished over time. Jews of Norwich were called to a trial by ordeal at an ecclesiastical court but were spared because the court had no jurisdiction over non-Christians. Miracles were attributed to St. William, and a minor cult grew up around him and images of the boy saint were painted for several churches close to Norwich, including Worstead.
Another unusual painting on the screen is St. Wilgefortis, or Uncumber, a reputed princess of Portugal, who vowed celibacy and grew a beard to keep unwanted suitors away.
The chancel screen is not the oldest screen in the church. Flanking the central screen are parclose screens at the east end of the north and south aisles. These two screens are at least a century earlier than the large chancel screen. They boast incredible fan vaulting and beautifully detailed paintings of robed figures in the base panels.
The late 15th. century font, is set upon a raised dais of steps. Each step is carved, with the carving detail becoming more ornate with each step. The font is topped with a richly detailed wooden cover, rising in a complex arrangement of flying buttresses and struts, suspended from the tower.
The most interesting historic memorial is a monumental brass to Rector John Yop, (d. 1404). In the centre aisle is a brass to an unnamed civilian, dated to around 1502. Near the screen is a later brass to John Albastyr (d. 1520). Albastyr and his wife Alice gave money for the chancel screen in 1512. An inscription detailing their gift runs across the central beam of the screen.
A persistent legend says that the church is haunted by the spirit of a 'white lady'. Unlike many ghost stories, the white lady is a kindly spirit, and a healer who is said to appear when there is an illness. Visitors to the church have reported being healed from ailments. Bur another version of the tale does not portray the spirit in such a kindly light. In this version she is said to appear on Christmas Eve, and if anyone sees her they will suffer premature death. The ghost of Worstead legend lives on in the name of the pub just outside the churchyard, which used to be called The New Inn, but has been renamed The White Lady in honour of Worstead church's resident spirit.
St. Mary's gained Grade: I listed building status on 16th. April 1955. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 224194).
Illustrated Postal Card Co.
CAPA-001287
Mailed from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Imogene McGroganin Patterson, New Jersey on August 3, 1908:
I don't forget you even though I didn't get down before we came away. We are at the Chalfont & enjoying it very much, Love to you and your mother. Lovingly, Florence.