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Identifier: bookofroyalblue19balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nze door by Mr. Warner, typifying•Tradition, and to the right a doorbegun by the same artist but finished byMr. Herbert Adams, representingWriting. This series of pictorial doors, so fullof beautiful detail and standing forTradition, Writing and Printing arecommemorative of the meansof transmis-sion of thought as embodied in thescience, the architecture and the arts ofthe whole human family. Entranced, I stood at the entrance ofthis great building and forming, fromthe beauty of exterior, an idea ofthe interior, passed into the Grand En-trance Hall. With a sensation of awe,closely akin to the feeling I experiencedin first viewing Niagara and the NaturalBridge of Virginia, my eye glanced fromone beautiful object to another ; frombrilliant mosaics to sculptured shapesof surpassing grace ; to paintings, not ofold masters, but of that strong, vigor-ous, healthful American school thatslowly but surely is forging to the front,thinking erstwhile that truly a thingof beauty is a joy forever.
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l»W^ i^-.ij THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. I HE most instructive, historical and-*■ scenic route to Washington is theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad. This is animportant feature to teachers and theirfriends who contemplate attending themeeting of the National EducationalAssociation, in July. It is a matter ofgreat importance that the time goingand returning should be utilized to best inally laid out over a hundred years ago.It is over the route which Washingtontook to Western Pennsylvania in theearly days of the French and Indian war.For more than one hundred and fiftymiles out of Washington the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad follows the historicPotomac River, through beautiful val-leys, rich in the lore of love and war.

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