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Title
Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 3-1879: The Value of Common School Education to Common Labor
Creator
Jarvis, Edward, author
Government Printing Office, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued
1879
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information
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Description
One pamphlet, copyright 1879, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 3-1879: The Value of Common School Education to Common Labor, by Edward Jarvis, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. The overall theme of the book concerns the value of education to common laborers. Descriptions of the tasks and work conditions of various types of common labor (including wood splitter, shoveller, and weaver) are given. The crux of the author's argument appears on p. 25: "The value that is created and added to matter by labor is in the ratio of the skill of the worker or the appropriateness of his exertions and the rapidity with which they are made. ... When the mind is torpid, the hand works alone, and for want of a watchful guide it moves in an uncertain manner and with doubtful effect..." The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. A Dewey Decimal call number is written in ms. on the verso of the title page.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
5 7/8 in. W x 9 in. H ; 14.9 cm. W x 22.9 cm. H
Identifier
Box 42 Env. 13
33649
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/5960
Subject
Miscellaneous Pamphlets/Books
Source
Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera
Instructional Materials
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Korzenik, Diana, 1941-, former owner.

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