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Title: The first exposition of conservation and its builders; an official history of the National conservation exposition, held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of its forerunners, the Appalachian expositions of 1910-11, embracing a review of the conservation movement in the United States from its inception to the present time
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Goodman, William M Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946 Ellis, Don Carlos Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932
Subjects: Knoxville, Tenn. National Conservation Exposition (1913) Knoxville, Tenn. Appalachian Exposition (1910) Knoxville, Tenn. Appalachian Exposition (1911) Natural resources
Publisher: Knoxville, Tenn. (Press of Knoxville lithographing co.)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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iressed upon the mind b\- the \^•lrion-^ devicesof the exhibit. The Atlanta .\nti-Tuberculosis Society contributes a creditable (k-)rirtnienlto the exhibit; also the Alkuua Surgical Institute in the matter of the triatmentgi\-en deformed children. An interesting jiart of the welfaie exhibit is that sent by the city of .Memphis,ll shows a complete little hosjiital and e(;ui))ment for children, according to the freshair idea, and illustrates the work being done by the childrens open ,air hos))ital ofMemphis, maintained through a sjjccial tax le\ied on bachelors. A wealthy bachelorof that cit_\-contributed the fuiKN for the little exhibit sent to the l\nnx\-ille ex))osi-tion. In the department of common school education a most creditable showing ismade b\- the school children of Knoxville. those of the grammar grades, and those ofthe high .schools, the Knoxville school system deiuonstrating the success of indus-trial education being combined with the acadennc in the general curriculum.
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nil. I/hST JixiosiTJox or coxsi-Ri.irioN 123 The school problem, I learned, was almost as complex in Knoxville as it is inAtlanta, in the lack of large enough school Iniildings and adecjuate facilities. Therecent enactment of a S))lendid law for compulsory school attendance has broughtsuddenly to the sclnxil a large element of children wlm might without the law haveneyer had a chance. Besides their inyalual)le aid in making the social side of the exposition a suc-cess, the womans board, of which Mrs. Horace \an Deventer is the efficient presi-dent, has a beautiful exhibit of womans wares and hand-crafts in the womansbuilding. Hyery department commands interest and rellects the genius and talentof women from the simple work of the rural and mountain women with their handsto the literary achieyements of the wome.n of the !-^outh to be seen in the libraryexhibit and those of art and the sciences domestic. A loan exhibit is a feature ofthe womans building, and the whole reflects the conti

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