(RECONSTRUCTION) C Thurston Chase A Manual on School Houses

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(RECONSTRUCTION.) C. Thurston Chase. A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South. Numerous text illustrations. 83 pages. Octavo, 8¾ x 5½ inches, original gilt cloth, moderate wear and staining; lacking free endpapers, moderate dampstaining to early leaves, some illustrations crudely hand-colored, lacking blank portion of final leaf; printed introductory note by O.O. Howard tipped in. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868

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The introductory note that "its object is to furnish to freedmen who are constructing school-houses, cottages, and other buildings, simple models, at as cheap a rate as possible, and with sufficient detail to enable any ordinary mechanic to do the work." It is recommended to those "who may have connection with public instruction amongst the colored people of the southern States."