Up to the Clouds on Muleback: The Terrible Triumvirate, 1938

Title: Up to the Clouds on Muleback: The Terrible Triumvirate, 1938

Author: Kellogg, Charles

Publication: Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed in the David Hale Fanning Trade School for Girls, 1938.

Description: An account of the author's six-day journey on muleback in 1938 through the High Sierras (Sierra Nevada) of Yosemite National Park, printed by students of the David Hale Fanning Trade School for Girls. First edition. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Title page in green and black. Bound in full red-brown paper over boards, with pictorial design printed in black on front cover and map-illustrated endpapers. 7.75 x 5.5 inches; 157, [3] pages (first and last leaves blank as issued). Sunned spine, staining in the gutter at one opening, and spotting of text edges. Very Good. The David Hale Fanning Girls Trade School was built in 1918-1919 and was named after the owner of the Royal Worcester Corset Company, who donated $100,000 to help fund the school. The school was the first trade school in Massachusetts built specifically for women and only the second in the United States. There was a recognized need for a girls' trade school in Worcester due to the high dropout rate (in 1906 one-third of all girls attending Worcester's public schools dropped out in the sixth and seventh grades). The goal of the school was to train girls for technical jobs, such as those at the Royal Worcester Corset Company. In the 1970s the school closed its original location. and merged with the Worcester Boys' Trade High School, eventually becoming the Worcester Technical High School.