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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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recreation, giving from the mainfloor a picture-gallery eftect. These screens were as simple and direct as possible,with pictures to tell a large part of the story. They were evidently genuinelyinteresting to the exposition crowds. At one end of the gallery, also, a dental clinicwas held on certain days. On the main floor, pictures competed with real life for popular interest. Alarge open space in the center was assigned at staled hours to exhibitions by RoyScouts, Campfire Cirls, and the citys settlements. lUit the greater i)arl of thefl(M)r was given up to the babies. Here were jianels and i)ictures illustrating theircare and a glass-enclosed room for the actual ))hysical examination; here, too, wasa demonstration kitchen in charge of a nurse where mothers might watch the prep-aration of artificial food, an enclosed porch e(;uii)ixd with small beds and baskets, *Cliief of tlie Federal Childieiis Bureau at Washiiiston; menilier nl llie Advisory Board, NationalConservation Exposition.
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opinOa. 111 z o > <n Z ou <z op<z d 2 5J 5CO <u.-J ^ a I(J THE IIKSr nXPOSlTJON OF CONSERJATION 275 aiul adjoiniiii;- this, the rest room proper where hal)ies might he left in eharge ofnurses on payment of a small fee, while the parents viewed the exposition. The Conference Room, particularly, where the physical examination of chil-dren was conducted, was from the first surrounded hy an eager little group ofspectators. One couple from the country had wandered around from screen toscreen silent and unres))oiisive to the eflorts of the ex(jlainer. hinally they reachedthe Conference Room where they saw a child ))eing examined. The womanturned to her husl)and and exclaimed, There, pa, 1 told you w-ed orter hroughtourn. The aim of this Conference was to show the ph_\sical condition of children\-isiting the National Conservation Exposition in Knoxville and to jjoint out anydefects which, if uncorrected, might cause lasting injury, giving to the parents arecord of the examinat

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