Training School Office of Director Prof. Austin George, T.S. Director.

Title: Training School Office of Director Prof. Austin George, T.S. Director.
Description: This image depicts a meeting in the office of the Director of the Training School, Professor Austin George (pictured sitting in the middle on the left side of the table). During the summer of 1863, the same year George graduated from the MSNS, he organized Company E of the 17th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War. After graduating, George moved to Kalamazoo where he worked several positions within the Kalamazoo Public School system, and established a Training School. George returned to the MSNS in 1881, the same year he proposed and started The Normal News, and a year later accepted his role as the Director of the Training School. After significantly expanding and strengthening the Training School curriculum, George left the Normal in 1896 to accept a position as the Superintendent of the Ypsilanti Public Schools.
Publisher: Gibson Studio
Subject: Note-taking, Discussion, Meetings, Black-and-white photography, Men, Women
Location: Michigan State Normal School, Ypsilanti, MI

Item sets: Class of 1892 Photograph Collection--World's Columbian Exposition