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Identifier: stnicholasserial181dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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visitors like to linger, is thatwhere glass, pottery, and porcelain are displayedin large cases. A learned professor spent severalmonths in selecting and purchasing the choicestspecimens of these articles that he could find inEngland, France, Austria, Germany, Holland,and Belgium; and the result is very fascinating.If you take time to study the cases, insteadof simply admiring the pretty things that they 19- A GREAT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. (Jan. contain, you will have another valuable lesson— a lesson in ceramics. For here is the clay orkaolin of which all these beautiful jars and vasesare made, just as it is taken from the earth;and then all the common forms of pottery inprocess of manufacture. Here are beautiful machinery complete, which is sometimes run-ning at full speed, the motive power being fur-nished by a tiny engine; or of the beautifulforms of crystals, the hundreds of mineral speci-mens, the collections of textile fabrics, of lacesand embroideries, and many other curious and
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A DRAWING-CLASS IN THE ART DEPARTMENT. Moorish jars whose pattern and coloring re-mind you of the Alhambra and of WashingtonIrvings stories about the Moors in Spain. Hereare exquisite Sevres, and splendid specimensof Doulton, Wedgwood, Copeland, and Mintonwares, with fine pieces of faience from Rome,Milan, and Naples. Some choice pieces aremade in New Jersey. One large case illustratesthe process of glass-making and shows beautifulpieces of cut, blown, etched, and engraved work.Some of these pieces are from Austria and Bo-hemia, some from France and Venice. Hand-some mosaic work from Rome and Florence,and some exquisite cameo vases, attract our at-tention as we hasten by. I have not space to tell you about the inter-esting model of an oil-well with derrick and wonderful things which have been selected byexperienced men and women from many por-tions of the world. There are a great manymuseums in this country that are larger thanthis, but not many so thoroughly interestingand instructiv

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