The State Normal Schools: Teaching Teachers and Others

In view of their complex, if not complicated, information systems, computers and advanced technology seemingly snatched from the next century, Pennsylvania’s “modern” state universities evolved from what were originally called “normal” schools. During the last century, both educational and social traditions have changed drastically; in fact, nineteenth century...
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The Vision of David H. Mellinger

To those sated with visual images – the thousands of televi­sion commercials, magazine illustrations and billboard drawings – the nov­elty which once surrounded photographs is difficult to appreciate today. During the prosperous decades following the Civil War, early photogra­phy was limited to the work of trained professionals, those dauntless photographers, tethered to their...
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