Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
=Michigan--Trolley Car. Children’s Year Special.= Woman’s Committee,
Michigan Division of the Council of National Defense. 1918. Car
divided into three sections for exhibits, examinations, lectures, and
demonstrations.
=Vermont--Wagon. Health Exhibit Wagon.= State Board of Health. 1913.
Horse-drawn vehicle used for moving pictures and health exhibits.
=Wisconsin--Motorcycle. “Flying Squadron of Health.”= Subject:
propaganda for tuberculosis prevention and cure. Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis Association. 1911-1915. Exhibits, stereopticon
slides, and lectures.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The amount of printed matter bearing on the use of trains, trucks,
and trolley cars in educational campaigns is not very large. The list
below is fairly representative of the material available, most of it
being in the form of articles and illustrations in magazines and other
periodicals.
=Agricultural Train.= Biennial Report, 1912-13, Department of
Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, Frankfort, Kentucky, pp. 48-56.
Five illustrations of train and exhibits.
=Apple Packing Train, The.= F. S. Welsh. New York State Agricultural
Department Bulletin, January, 1916, vol. 79, pp. 679-83. Description
of Apple Packing Train of New York Central Railroad and State
Department of Agriculture. Two illustrations of demonstrators.
=Auto-Stereopticon and Moving Picture Machine For Extension Service in
Rural Schools.= Louisiana State University Bulletin, July 1915. Nine
illustrations of car for showing motion pictures at school houses,
audience at lecture, and details of picture machine.
=Better Farming Special, A.= C. T. Rice. Hoard’s Dairyman, January
28, 1916, vol. 51, p. 4. Description of Norfolk and Western Railway’s
Better Farming Special. One illustration of exterior of train.
=Better Farming Train, The.= A. M. Shaw. Agricultural Gazette of
Canada, October, 1916, pp. 909-13. Description of train and tour of
Canada’s Better Farming Train. Three illustrations of exterior and
interior of train.
=Child Welfare Special, The.= Janet Geister. Institution Quarterly,
Springfield, Illinois, December 31, 1919, pp. 120-25. Description of
Child Welfare Special of Children’s Bureau and its tour.
=Cine-Motor Touring Movies Equipment of the British Government.= F.
A. Talbot. Scientific American, August 3, 1918, vol. 119, p. 93. Two
illustrations of a truck used for moving picture projection of films
giving war information in rural districts.
=Cleaning Up a State.= Henry Oyen. World’s Work, March 1912, pp.
510-21. Map and several illustrations of Health Exhibit Train of
Louisiana State Board of Health.
=Dairy Instruction Car.= Agricultural Gazette of Canada, May, 1916, p.
449. Description of Canada’s Special Dairy Car.
=Educating the Farmers by Rail.= H. A. Crafts. Scientific American,
May 21, 1910, vol. 102, pp. 420-21. Description of California’s
Agricultural and Horticultural Train.
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