Montgomery Alabama: John G. Stokes & Co. State Printers 1870. 7 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Light old folds wrappers lightly spotted Very Good. Contemporary inscription at head of front wrapper "Respects of G. Horton Mobile." A Bostonian who had moved to Mobile as a young man Horton was Mayor of Mobile at this time. Previously he had been an advocate of public education and had served on Mobile's school board. During the Civil War he was jailed for Unionist sympathies. During Reconstruction his advocacy of civil rights placed his life in constant danger.<br/><br/> The Report is a chapter in Alabama's bitter Reconstruction strife. It attacks Dr. N.B. Cloud State Superintendent of Public Instruction who was regarded by unreconstructed Alabamans as a Scalawag for his support of Reconstruction and the Republican Party. The Report also attacks G.L. Putnam whom Cloud had named Mobile's superintendent of education an appointment which other Mobile educators refused to recognize. Cloud brokered a compromise-- for which he lacked authority-- by making Putnam superintendent of Emerson College known as the 'Blue School' a Negro school run by the American Missionary Association. The Report accuses Cloud and Putnam of illegally diverting public funds to the support of the Blue School.<br/>Ellison 1597. OCLC locates five copies as of August 2014 under two accession numbers. John G. Stokes & Co., State Printers unknown books
Montgomery 1870. 23 1 blank pp with original printed title wrappers. Text lightly dusted wrappers dirty stitched. <br/><br/> This case is a chapter in Alabama's bitter Reconstruction history. Mobile School Commissioners claimed that George L. Putnam Superintendent of the Mobile schools had mishandled funds which were supposed to be used to support the free public schools. Putnam had been appointed Superintendent by N.B. Cloud State Superintendent of Public Instruction whom unreconstructed Alabamans considered a Scalawag. Putnam used public funds as authorized by Cloud for the support of a school for Negroes. The outcome of the case turned on whether the Commissioners were properly established under the laws and Reconstruction Constitution of Alabama. This brief reviews the history of the Mobile School System and the controversy. <br/>Not located on OCLC as of July 2014. unknown books
New York NY: New School for Social Research 1961. . Exhibition brochure. 8vo. 2 pp. Single orange and black and white illustrated sheet folded horizontally into thirds. Good with marginal tearing and soiling along page edges and crease lines. Black and white plates.Includes text by Paul Mocsanyi Director of the New School Art Center. Includes list of participating artists and list of lenders. Brochure created to announce the exhibition “Mechanism and Organism: An International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture†held at the New School for Social Research in New York NY from October 5 through 27 1961. Scarce. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. New York, NY: New School for Social Research, 1961. unknown
Fair. This copy has character! Sort of pale olive binding instead of the cream that is pictured. This was a high school text with the names of several girls inside the font cover pencil marks on cover many notations on fly leaf. Text itself is very clean and well cared for surprise surprise! there is a sketch of a "stylin'" lady/girl of the day on back fly leaf. Binding is cracked by title page and last page of index but no loosening of pages. Just a fun look at a schoolbook and styles/designs of the past. unknown