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Title: The Arts of Design: Especially as Related to Female Education
Creator: Seiss, Joseph A. (Joseph Augustus), 1823-1904, author
John Murphy & Co. (Baltimore, Md.), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1857
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
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Description: One pamphlet, copyright 1857, entitled The Arts of Design: Especially as Related to Female Education, by J. A. Seiss, published by John Murphy & Co., Baltimore, Maryland. The subtitle reads: "An Address: deliberated in the Hall of the Maryland Institute, at the commencement of the Female Department of the School of Design, November 25th, 1856." The speaker encouraged women to enter the sphere of industrial arts and argued that "the 'Mechanic Arts' would improve both women's lot and the nation's economy." This 28-page pamphlet is unbound and not illustrated.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 5 1/2 in. W x 8 1/2 in. H ; 13.9 cm. W x 21.4 cm. H
Identifier: Box 43 Env. 03
33658
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/5968
Subject: Miscellaneous Pamphlets/Books
Source: Diana Korzenik Collection of Art Education Ephemera
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Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Korzenik, Diana, 1941-, former owner.

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