Girls doing the touch exercises with pieces of fabric. The girl on the right is blindfolded so as to concentrate all her attention on the sense of touch. The photograph, from 1912, belonged to S. S. McClure of New York, the publisher of the famous McClure's Magazine, which in 1911/12 published a number of articles and photographs and had a decisive influence on the birth of the American Montessori movement. This photograph (like the other photographs by McClure in this book) was probably taken in the first American Children's House in Tarrytown N.Y., which was set up in 1911 and whose charges were all "from cultured families." (Kramer, p. 163) - T. Müller, R. Schneider, Lehrmaterialien 1913-1935. Möbel und Architektur. Techning Meterials 1913-1935. Furniture and Architecture, München, Prestel Verlag, 2002, p.93

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