1889 Draft program for a one-room school's public exhibition E1290

1889 – Draft program for a one-room school house's public exhibition demonstrating the accomplishments of its students.
In 19th century America there were three main types of pre-college schooling: grammar schools that focused on Latin and Greek and prepared boys for college, one-room schools that provided both girls and boys a very basic education, and academies that provided both boys and girls with classes more advanced than a one-room school but not with the intense Latin and Greek of a grammar school.
Academies were public schools in that any white child could attend, they were also for-profit ventures that required tuition. To advertise their quality, academies put on at least one public exhibition each year during which the students would perform recitations, declamations (theatrical passionate speeches), and music to impress the public. Attendees would be provided paper programs or “Order of Exercises.”
This is a draft of such a program for an unidentified exhibition conducted in 1889. It includes both prose and poetic recitations, dramatic declamations, and musical interludes. This exhibition charged 10-cents admission which would be used to fund the purchase of school furnishings.

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