Excerpt from Industrial Art; How It Is Advanced by Art Education: An Address at the 45th University Convocation of the State of New York, in the Senate Chamber, Capitol, Albany, N. Y., Friday Afternoon, October 18, 1907<br><br>These lists that have been very courteously furnished by Hon. G. B. Cortelyou, Treasurer of the United States, and statistics given by Hon. H. Von Meyer, Postmaster General, Show that the United States government issued in the fiscal year ended June 1907, coins, bills, postage stamps, postal cards, and 1,368,323,75o stamped envelopes; in other words, a total of coins, bills, postage stamps, postals and stamped envelopes in a single year. It requires but a glance to Show that if the government would spend per year on an artistic rendition of these objects, much could be done in an artistic way by this expenditure.<br><br>The following recommendations were prepared by a committee of the American Numismatic Society, of which the writer was chair man, and were presented to President Roosevelt for his considera tion, with the hope of formulating a method to permanently obtain the best results.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.