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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year is the Gothenburg Jubilee Exposition which opened on May 8 and which will continue until September 30. It includes unusually good educational, historical, archaeological and fine and applied arts exhibits. The educational exhibits will illustrate in models, charts, photographs and printed matter, the Swedish educational scheme, including a section on the "sloyd" or manual training system in the schools. This "sloyd" is of great significance in the art handicraft and industrial art movement which has taken such great strides in Sweden during the past decade...
...most striking exhibits will be those devoted to archaeology. Three separate archaeological expeditions have been financed by the City of Gothenburg to gather original material for this exhibit. The work began in 1915. One expedition under Dr. Giorg Sarauw, director of the archaeological section of the Gothenburg Museum has combed the Swedish west coast and gathered more than 20,000 objects. Among these is a well preserved skeleton believed to belong to the neolithic period and to be not less than 5000 years old, found near Kungsbacka, a small ancient village near Gothenburg. Another is the tomb of a woman...
Other historical exhibits will trace the influence which Sweden has had from other parts of Europe, England, France, Germany and even Russia and the east. A particularly interesting part of this is the section devoted to ecclesiastical art and architecture which illustrate the influence which various types of church construction in other parts of Europe have had in Sweden...
...fine arts section, students will have an opportunity to study the whole range of Scandinavian art. There will be an inter-Scandinavian exhibition, including work of the living Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish artists, a retrospective exhibit of swedish art relating to the West Coast and Gothenburg, a general retrospective exhibit of Swedish art, and several minor art shows, in addition to a striking exhibit of industrial art and art handicrafts
Tickets for that game in the Conlon cheering section are on sale at $1.50 and may be procured from Charles McLaughlin, 75 State Street, Boston; from Edward Casey in care of A.G. Spalding Company, Summer Street, Boston; or from John Dolan, Chairman of Conlon Day Committee, Woburn...