Photograph of George E. Tait, principal of the San Jose State Normal School from July 1867-February 1868. George E. Tait was born in New York City in 1831, but had strong roots in Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia and taught in the state before moving to California in 1853. Tait was deeply involved in California education before coming to the Normal School. He taught evening courses at the French Bank in San Francisco, was appointed principal of the Denman School of San Francisco and worked as City Superintendent of Schools, where he was a strong advocate for reform. Tait resigned after a brief time to devote his attention to his private business, but was soon conscripted by friends to organize the schools in Oakland and would spend the remainder of this life affiliated with education. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/presidents/ Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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