A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day (1881) (14768531125)

Identifier: popularhistoryof00ridpaj (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ontribution to the Cen-tennial grounds in the way of a Model School-house. The buildingwas constructed and furnished in Sweden according to the patterncommonly employed in the better class of the national High Schools.The structure was of native wood, unpainted, but brought to a highdegree of luster by skillful polishing. The furniture, apparatus, andtext-books displayed within, were excellent in their respective kinds;and the building in its entirety was fully worthy of the ten thousandencomiums which were pronounced upon it. As already mentioned the different States of the Union—except-ing Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor-ida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Oregon—erected buildings on the Centennial grounds, commemorative ofthe history, public spirit, and resources of the respective common-wealths. These structures varied greatly in their style, expensiveness,and proportions—according to the liberality or parsimony of the sev-
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(589) 590 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. eral State authorities. The buildings of New York, New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kansas were perhaps superior to any othersof this class in elegance of design and structure. Of similar sortwas the splendid Educational Hall of Pennsylvania, designed for thedisplay, by models and model-work, of all the methods and productsof education in the Keystone State. Of private structures the grounds were full. There was a commo-dious and valuable edifice situated at the intersection of the Agricul-tural Avenue with that of the Republic, called the Department ofPublic Comfort—a name significant of its design. An elegant build-ing, devoted to the displays of the Singer Sewing Machine Company,stood on the southern declivity of the Lansdowne Valley, north ofthe Art Gallery. Southward from Machinery Hall a Shoe andLeather Building had been erected, the design of which was to illus-trate the various processes and products of that important branch ofmanufa