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On April 4, 1910, the first kiln of high fire porcelains was fired at the Art Academy of the People's University. All the pieces on the tables came from that first kiln. The plate in the center was created by Taxile Doat to commemorate this event. The artists who gathered for a photograph include (left to right) Frederick H. Rhead, Samuel Robineau, Edward Gardner Lewis, Adelaide Alsop Robineau, Mabel Gertrude Lewis, Eugene Labarriere, George Julian Zolnay, Emile Diffloth and Taxile Doat. This photograph appeared in "The Woman's National Daily" on April 9, 1910.
Frederick Hurton Rhead was one of the talented ceramic artists Edward Gardner Lewis hired to teach at the Art Academy of the People's University. He wrote the correspondence course materials for teaching studio pottery for the school. In this photograph he is in his studio in the Art Academy. A series of tiles and pottery examples, which may be student work, are on the table. His wife, Agnes Rhead, was also an instructor.

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