Excerpt from Circular of the School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum: Twenty-First Season, 1897-98; School of Applied Art It is an institution which is destined to reflect, to an increasing extent, credit upon its promoters and upon the State, and it represents more directly perhaps than any other single agency that could be pointed out, the most powerful influences which are being exerted to-day in shaping the industrial destiny of the commonwealth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.