Annual report, 1895 . Modelling Roor. 26 of both houses of the State Legislature was addressed by Mr. Theo-dore C. Search, Mr. Charles H. Harding and Mr. Alexander Crow, ofthe Board of Trustees. A pair of silk curtains designed and wovenin the School, and in the ornamentation of which the arms of the Statehad been introduced, were presented to the State by Vice-PresidentSearch on this occasion. The curtains are of considerable interest asbeing, probably, the most elaborate example of weaving that has hith-erto been produced in America. A replica was exhibited at the Co-lumbian Exhibition, and
Annual report, 1895 . Modelling Roor. 26 of both houses of the State Legislature was addressed by Mr. Theo-dore C. Search, Mr. Charles H. Harding and Mr. Alexander Crow, ofthe Board of Trustees. A pair of silk curtains designed and wovenin the School, and in the ornamentation of which the arms of the Statehad been introduced, were presented to the State by Vice-PresidentSearch on this occasion. The curtains are of considerable interest asbeing, probably, the most elaborate example of weaving that has hith-erto been produced in America. A replica was exhibited at the Co-lumbian Exhibition, and one was purchased for the Museum of Indus-trial Art at Stuttgart by the director of that institution. After repeated solicitations from the authorities of the AtlantaExposition, that the School should make an exhibition there—solici-tation to which I first felt compelled to give a negative answer, onaccount of the expense—I decided at last that we would make theexhibition. This I did in compliance with what I found to be the very
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