Bowling Green State University, Educational Memorabilia Center collection
Collection Organization
This collection is comprised of two main series, the first being the records series that contains minutes, correspondence, files, literary productions, articles, news clippings, and photographs dating mostly from 1969-2004 and documenting the development of a one-room schoolhouse museum and education center (eventually named the Educational Memorabilia Center) on the campus of Bowling Green State University. Documentation features information about the schoolhouse's use, tours, classes, fundraising, donations, and future development. Additional basic research materials and primary sources relating to one-room schoolhouses in Wood County, Northwest Ohio, and other parts of the state that were collected in connection with the establishment of the Educational Memorabilia Center are also included in this series. These latter materials date from circa 1900-1999.
The second series of the collection contains educational artifacts arranged into four sub-series based on the provenance and/or historical function of the artifacts, including (1) donated or purchased artifacts, (2) teaching and testing artifacts, (3) writing artifacts, and (4) other school-related artifacts. Objects within these sub-series include penmanship booklets, textbooks, reference works, grade cards, teaching certificates, diplomas, slates, inkwells, bells, lunch pails, and various period teaching instruments, many of which were in use from 1876-1940, the approximate years the university's one-room schoolhouse operated as District School # 6, Norwalk, Ohio. Also included are over 3,000 representative volumes spanning both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Records, circa 1900-2004, bulk: 1969-2004
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- Creation: circa 1900-2004
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1969-2004
Proposal to establish “A Center for Educational Memorabilia in Northwestern Ohio”, 1969-1979
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- Creation: 1969-1979
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 1969-1970
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- Creation: 1969-1970
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 1971-1976
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- Creation: 1971-1976
Minutes – Advisory Committee and Planning Council Fundraising drive, 1971-March 1972
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- Creation: 1971-March 1972
Minutes – Advisory Committee and Planning Council Fundraising drive, May-December 1972
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- Creation: May-December 1972
Minutes – Advisory Committee and Planning Council Fundraising drive, 1972-1975
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- Creation: 1972-1975
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 1996
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- Creation: 1996
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 1997
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- Creation: 1997
Minutes – Advisory Committee- Executive Council Meeting, February 28, 1998
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- Creation: February 28, 1998
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 1998-2000
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- Creation: 1998-2000
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 2001-2003
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- Creation: 2001-2003
Minutes – Advisory Committee, 2003-2004
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- Creation: 2003-2004
By-laws – Advisory Committee, 2001
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- Creation: 2001
Minutes- One-Room Schoolhouse Enthusiasts Group, 2001-2002
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- Creation: 2001-2002
Annual Reports-Little Red Schoolhouse, 2000-2002
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- Creation: 2000-2002
Correspondence, 1968-1971
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- Creation: 1968-1971
Correspondence – Search for schoolhouse to move to BGSU, 1969-1970
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- Creation: 1969-1970
Correspondence – Glenn Felch, 1969-1972
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- Creation: 1969-1972
Correspondence – Robert F. Skelton, 1970
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- Creation: 1970
Correspondence, 1972-1975
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- Creation: 1972-1975
Correspondence, 1976-1989
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- Creation: 1976-1989
Correspondence, 1990-1999
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- Creation: 1990-1999
Correspondence, 2000-2004
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- Creation: 2000-2004
Correspondence – Form letters for fundraising and acquisition of Memorabilia, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
Correspondence – Thank you letters to donors, 1969-1975
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- Creation: 1969-1975
Correspondence – Thank you letters to donors, 1976-1977
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- Creation: 1976-1977
Correspondence – Thank you letters to donors, 1977-1983, undated
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- Creation: 1977-1983, undated
Correspondence – Thank you letters to donors, 1986-2003, undated
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- Creation: 1986-2003, undated
Correspondence – Letters received from elementary student visitors, 1990
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- Creation: 1990
Brandville School, Oregon, Ohio, 2001
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- Creation: 2001
Collins School, Xenia, Ohio, 1985-1997
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- Creation: 1985-1997
Collins School, 1986
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- Creation: 1986
Little Red Schoolhouse #7, Hancock County Museum, Findlay, Ohio, 1973, 1995, undated
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- Creation: 1973, 1995, undated
Little Red Schoolhouse, Norwalk, Ohio, 1976, 1994
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- Creation: 1976, 1994
McGuffey Museum, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1997
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- Creation: 1997
Oak Grove Schoolhouse, Wildwood Metro Park, Toledo, Ohio, 1998
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- Creation: 1998
Schoolhouse replica, District 16, Sauder Village, Archbold, Ohio, 1979, 1996
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- Creation: 1979, 1996
Zimmerman School, Wood County Park District, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1990-1998
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- Creation: 1990-1998
Zimmerman School, program planning handbook, 1994
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- Creation: 1994
One-room schools in Ohio, 1986-1997
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- Creation: 1986-1997
Society for the Preservation of Ohio One-Room Schools, 1993, undated
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- Creation: 1993, undated
Schoolhouses at universities in the United States, 1988-2003
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- Creation: 1988-2003
Rules for school teachers, 1979, undated
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- Creation: 1979, undated
Bibliographies - one-room schoolhouses, books used for instruction, undated
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Ilo Dolbee, last teacher at Huron Co. District #6 School, 1996-1997
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- Creation: 1996-1997
Listing of former students of Huron Co. District #6 School, 1972-1988
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- Creation: 1972-1988
Dedication program for Little Red Schoolhouse, 1976
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- Creation: 1976
Conference proposal, 2002
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- Creation: 2002
Fundraising, donations, and promotions for Little Red Schoolhouse, 1970s, 2002-2003
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- Creation: 1970s, 2002-2003
Grant proposal, “A Day at the Schoolhouse”, 1997
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- Creation: 1997
Presentation, “Schooling 100 Years Ago: The Little Red Schoolhouse”, 1998
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- Creation: 1998
Renaming paperwork and plaque designs, 1991-1994
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- Creation: 1991-1994
Tour guides, 2001-2004
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- Creation: 2001-2004
Tour schedule, 2003
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- Creation: 2003
Twentieth anniversary celebration, 1996
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- Creation: 1996
Volunteer teachers’ biographical forms, undated
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Deed of gift agreements, 1978
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- Creation: 1978
Deed of gift agreements, no addresses, 1978
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- Creation: 1978
Deed of gift agreements, 1978-1982
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- Creation: 1978-1982
Deed of gift agreements, 2001-2002
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- Creation: 2001-2002
Donations of player piano and pump organ, 2002
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- Creation: 2002
Donation – Eve Dauer, 2003
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- Creation: 2003
Donation – Muriel J. Strebe, 2001
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- Creation: 2001
Donation – Ronald D. Waugh, 2003
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- Creation: 2003
Long term loans, 1978-1984
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- Creation: 1978-1984
Contributors/donor lists, 1970-1985, undated
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- Creation: 1970-1985, undated
Miscellaneous donation cards, 2001
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- Creation: 2001
Glenn Felch research – Summary of data collected from survey of one-room schoolhouses in Wood County Ohio, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
Questionnaire for Wood County one-room schoolhouse survey, undated
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Questionnaire for Wood County - Freedom Township school, Undated
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Questionnaire for Wood County – Perrysburg Township school, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
Data sheets for Wood County - Bloom Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Center Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Freedom Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Henry Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Jackson Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Lake Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Liberty Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Milton Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Middleton Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Montgomery Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Northwood Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Perry Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Perrysburg Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Plain Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Portage Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Troy Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Washington Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Webster Township schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Wood County - Weston Township (Grand Rapids) Schools, Undated
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Data sheets for Ohio schools – Miscellaneous – Stone, undated
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Data sheets for Ohio schools – Miscellaneous – Log or frame, undated
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Data sheets for Ohio schools – Miscellaneous – Brick, undated
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- Creation: undated
Works Progress Administration (WPA) – Huron County schools, 1937
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- Creation: 1937
Works Progress Administration (WPA) – Wood County schools, 1936
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- Creation: 1936
Excerpts from Wood County, Plain Township, Board of Education minutes, 1865-1881 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1865-1881 (scattered)
Data from reports of the Wood County Board of Education Sent to the Wood County Auditor, 1867-1869 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1867-1869 (scattered)
History of the Little Red Schoolhouse Project by Dean D.G. Elsass, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
History of the Little Red Schoolhouse by Kevin Weller and Dean Elsass, 1982
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- Creation: 1982
History of the Little Red Schoolhouse by Adrienne Mather, 1987
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- Creation: 1987
History of the Little Red Schoolhouse and the Center for Educational Memorabilia by Sarah Heck, 1995
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- Creation: 1995
History of the Little Red Schoolhouse and the Educational Memorabilia Center, undated
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Poem “Our Little Red Brick Schoolhouse” by Lois R. Austin, 1988
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- Creation: 1988
Report regarding the establishment of the Educational Memorabilia Center and Sue Finkel’s report by Randall Buchman, 1978
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- Creation: 1978
Little Red Schoolhouse position paper – status and future by Malcolm Campbell, 2002
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- Creation: 2002
Educational Memorabilia Collection book policy and inventory 2003, undated
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Educational Memorabilia Collection processing guidelines, circa 1982
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- Creation: circa 1982
Little Red Schoolhouse tour instructions, circa 1980, 1982
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- Creation: circa 1980, 1982
Educational Memorabilia Center guide manual, 1980
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- Creation: 1980
Student workbooks, circa 1998, 2000
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- Creation: circa 1998, 2000
Teacher guidelines, 1970s
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- Creation: 1970s
Teacher manual and planning information, Spring 1999
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- Creation: Spring 1999
Teacher manual and planning information, Fall 1999
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- Creation: Fall 1999
Teacher manual and planning information, Spring 2000?
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- Creation: Spring 2000?
Teacher manual and planning information, December 2000
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- Creation: December 2000
Teacher manual and planning information, Spring 2001
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- Creation: Spring 2001
Teacher manual and planning information, December 2001
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- Creation: December 2001
Teacher manual and planning information, Spring 2002
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- Creation: Spring 2002
Teacher manual and planning information, Fall 2002
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- Creation: Fall 2002
Teacher manual and planning information, 2003
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- Creation: 2003
Teacher manual and planning information, Spring 2004
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- Creation: Spring 2004
Visitor register - Educational Memorabilia Center, 1993-1997
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- Creation: 1993-1997
Visitor register – Educational Memorabilia Center, 1998-2003
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- Creation: 1998-2003
History of BGSU student teaching (fifty years) - questionnaire and Responses, 1965
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- Creation: 1965
History of BGSU student teaching by Dr. James Overman, 1965-1969
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- Creation: 1965-1969
History of BGSU student teaching – “The Bowling Green Plan for Student Teaching”, 1932-1958
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- Creation: 1932-1958
History of BGSU student teaching- Course of study in reading for Third grades – Alice Roth, 1934-1935
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- Creation: 1934-1935
History of BGSU student teaching – City of Bowling Green language Curriculum GradeThree and English course of study Grade Four – Alice Roth, undated
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- Creation: undated
History of BGSU student teaching – Alice Roth notes, 1946-1950
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- Creation: 1946-1950
History of BGSU Student Teaching (989.03.01) – Harriet L. Cunningham, Vera Somers, Lorrene L. Ort, et al, 1962, undated
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- Creation: 1962, undated
Beyond the Book by Ferd W. Gross, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
“Education in Ohio” by Newton, undated
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“The Country Schools of Ohio” by A.B. Graham, 1912
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- Creation: 1912
“Early Schools of Ohio” by Burns, undated
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Northwest Ohio Historical Resource Guide (mentions Educational Memorabilia Center), 2002
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- Creation: 2002
“Education in Ohio, 1780-1903 – Ohio Memory Project”, 2003
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- Creation: 2003
The Way it Was – Bicentennial Memories of Ohio Retired Teachers (ORTA), 1976
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- Creation: 1976
A Selection of One-Room Schoolhouses in Ohio by Elaine J. Pickerel, 1998
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- Creation: 1998
Country School Legacy – Humanities on the Frontier, Forward by Andrew Gulliford, 1981
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- Creation: 1981
Script – One-room school house slide presentation with some mention of northwest Ohio schools, undated
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Variety in Unity: The One-Room Schoolhouse – A survey of Architectural Styles Before 1900, undated
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Architectural plans of one-room schoolhouses – Historic American Buildings Survey, undated
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- Creation: undated
“Miss Adams, Country Teacher” by Treva Adams Strait, 1991
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- Creation: 1991
Promotional brochures – Educational Memorabilia Center, 1971-2002, undated
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- Creation: 1971-2002, undated
Bookmarks - Educational Memorabilia Center, 1998-2000
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- Creation: 1998-2000
Postcards – Educational Memorabilia Center, 1979-1983
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- Creation: 1979-1983
Print by Glenn Felch of the Little Red Schoolhouse and another design, 1980
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- Creation: 1980
BGSU holiday cards featuring designs of the Little Red Schoolhouse, 1991
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- Creation: 1991
Educational Memorabilia Center display cards, undated
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- Creation: undated
Stationery and forms for the Education Memorabilia Center, undated
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- Creation: undated
Printed materials for other one-room schools, undated
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- Creation: undated
Brochure for the Northwestern Ohio Educational Research Council, Inc., 1996-1997
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- Creation: 1996-1997
Clippings and press releases for the Educational Memorabilia Center, 1971-1979
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- Creation: 1971-1979
Clippings and press released for the Educational Memorabilia Center, 1980-1989
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- Creation: 1980-1989
Clippings, 1990-2004
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- Creation: 1990-2004
Clippings – Dr. David Elsass, 1978-1992
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- Creation: 1978-1992
Clippings – Other one-room schools, 1970, 1984
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- Creation: 1970, 1984
Photo – Dr. Elsass and donors with large school bell, 1970
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- Creation: 1970
Photos – Dismantling and reassembling the Little Red Schoolhouse, 1971-1974, 1989
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- Creation: 1971-1974, 1989
Photos – Dr. Elsass, interior of Little Red Schoolhouse, and artifact displays, 1980s
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- Creation: 1980s
Photos – Pupils and teachers at the Little Red Schoolhouse when it Was still operating and after it was moved to BGSU, circa 1920, 1980-1990
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- Creation: circa 1920, 1980-1990
Photos – Little Red Schoolhouse, 1972-1992, undated
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- Creation: 1972-1992, undated
Photos – Bowling Green schools and aerial of BGSU campus looking West, circa 1970
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- Creation: circa 1970
Blueprints – the Little Red Schoolhouse at BGSU and site, 1979, undated
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- Creation: 1979, undated
Photos – One-room school classes – 995.15.01 Medina Rd. School, 1931-1932
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- Creation: 1931-1932
361 unidentified photo, circa 1900
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- Creation: circa 1900
Photos – One-room school classes, unidentified, Undated
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- Creation: Undated
Photos –One-room schools – Ohio and Michigan, undated
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- Creation: undated
Photos – One-room schools – Northwest Ohio, most unidentified, Undated
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Photo – Cortland basketball team, 1994-1995
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- Creation: 1994-1995
Photos – Miscellaneous, undated
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Slides – Marathon Oil Company slides of the Little Red Schoolhouse Interior, 1984
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- Creation: 1984
Slides – Glenn Felch images of area one-room schools – 1 to 80, 1969-1972
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- Creation: 1969-1972
Slides – Glenn Felch images of area one-room schools – 81 to 191, 1969-1972
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- Creation: 1969-1972
Slides – Glenn Felch images of area one-room schools – 192 to 270, 1969-1972
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- Creation: 1969-1972
Slides – Glenn Felch images of area one-room schools – 271 to 311, 1969-1972
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- Creation: 1969-1972
Photo album – Education Clinic at BGSU, circa 1950
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- Creation: circa 1950
Microfilm/cd – Educational Memorabilia donor cards, circa 1970-2000
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- Creation: circa 1970-2000
Microfilm – MMS-175 Ida Raynes Thrall Building Book Early, 1900s
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- Creation: 1900s
Microfilm – Holmes County German Township School District 7 teacher/pupil register, 1853-1866
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- Creation: 1853-1866
Audio tapes (4) Interviews “School Days” by Sue Spitzer with Mrs. Ortha Welsh Bradley, Mrs. Stafford (Perrysburg), Mrs. Edna Wallace (Henry County), Mrs. Belnor (Perrysburg Township), Mary Bell Cantville (Van Wert County, 1973
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- Creation: 1973
Audio tapes (4) Interviews by Sue Spitzer with former pupils of The Little Red Schoolhouse (some Wood County), includes Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kilmer (Haskins), School teacher (Haskins), 1970s
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- Creation: 1970s
Audio tapes (4) Interviews by Sue Spitzer with John Kurfess, Ernest Ferrell, Charles Manley, Seymour Holloway, John Walbolt, and Harold Robinson, 1973, undated
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- Creation: 1973, undated
Audio tape – Interview by Marilyn Bratz with Ilo Dolbee, last teacher at the Little Red Schoolhouse #6 when it closed, 1996
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- Creation: 1996
Audio tape – Interview with Nellie Goodsite Hill (Bellevue), 1999
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- Creation: 1999
VHS tape with booklet – A Selection of One-Room Schoolhouses in Ohio by Elaine Pickerel, 1998
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- Creation: 1998
Photos - Class photographs showing pupils and teachers in front of one-room schoolhouse buildings, circa 1900s
Pupils and teachers mostly unidentified. Two photographs show classes/schoolhouses in Toledo, Ohio, and one photograph shows a class/schoolhouse in Blissfield, Michigan; all other locations are unknown.
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- Creation: circa 1900s
Oversize display board showing sample pages from manuscript sum-books, circa 1900
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- Creation: circa 1900
Artifacts, circa 1876-1940
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- Creation: circa 1876-1940
Donated or purchased artifacts
Penmanship booklets: Zaner Method, Palmer Method, Letter styles, 1878-1928 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1878-1928 (scattered)
Palmer Penmanship Pointers, 1922
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- Creation: 1922
Manuscript alphabets, 1878-1978
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- Creation: 1878-1978
Penmanship practice booklets, circa 1856
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- Creation: circa 1856
Penmanship practice booklets, 1890-1900, undated
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- Creation: 1890-1900, undated
Practice account book, 1866-1869
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- Creation: 1866-1869
Samples of standardized testing and Ohio Teachers’ examinations and answers (samples), 1905-1906, 1920-1960 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1905-1906, 1920-1960 (scattered)
Math drill card, reading or spelling aid, Undated
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Grade cards, 1884-1909
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- Creation: 1884-1909
Grade cards, 1911-1930 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1911-1930 (scattered)
Grade cards and miscellaneous certificates from “School Days Past and Present” display at the Educational Memorabilia Center in 1985, 1894-1929
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- Creation: 1894-1929
Certificates – Rosalie C. Hohler, 1903-1926
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- Creation: 1903-1926
Grade cards – Wayne S. Dilts, 1907-1912
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- Creation: 1907-1912
Grade cards and school memories of Suzanne Friedly in 1986, 1911-1917
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- Creation: 1911-1917
Grade cards and test – Kathyrn Florence Meyers, Bowling Green State Normal College, 1917, 1926-1927
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- Creation: 1917, 1926-1927
Grade book/school record, 1869
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- Creation: 1869
Teaching certificates, 1864-1969 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1864-1969 (scattered)
Autograph album, 1882-1885
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- Creation: 1882-1885
Scrapbook/photo album made by Bowling Green Normal School Student Hazel Babione, 1917-1918
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- Creation: 1917-1918
Graduation invitations and programs and annual reunion invitation for Bucyrus High School, 1878-1886, 1890-1925
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- Creation: 1878-1886, 1890-1925
Diplomas and certificates, 1913-1952
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- Creation: 1913-1952
Accordion paged book of folded and punched paper art (997.07.02), Circa 1890
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- Creation: Circa 1890
Accordion paged book of punched paper and stitchery art (997.07.03), Circa 1890
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- Creation: Circa 1890
Waite Advocate (newsletter), Toledo, Ohio, 1906
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- Creation: 1906
Bronze medal commemorating the inauguration of William T. Jerome as sixth president of Bowling Green State University (984.42.01), 1964
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- Creation: 1964
Falcon Club Medallion honoring Dave Wottle, seven-time All-American and Olympic gold medalist, 1973
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- Creation: 1973
Miniature books (2), undated
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- Creation: undated
Illustrated Instructional cards - Italian art: Childe Harold (21 cards), Marble Faun (2 cards), and Romola (34 cards)
Illustrated Instructional cards - Literature: Dickens (14 cards), Homer (2 cards), and Shakespeare (34 cards)
Illustrated Instructional cards - Raphael's Bible (40 cards)
General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools by Samuel Chester Paker, 1919
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- Creation: 1919
Acquiring Skill in Teaching by James R. Grant, 1922
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- Creation: 1922
Introduction to the Use of Standard Tests by Sidney L. and Luella Cole Pressey, 1923
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- Creation: 1923
William's Choice Literature: Book 2 Grammar Grades by Sherman Williams, 1898
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- Creation: 1898
Teaching Children to Read by Paul Klapper, 1922
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- Creation: 1922
Industrial Education in the Elementary School by Percival R. Cole, 1914
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- Creation: 1914
The Four Wonders: Cotton, Wool, Linen, and Silk by Elnora E. Shillig, 1913
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- Creation: 1913
Stereoscopic view cards produced by the Keystone View Company, donated by Crim Elementary School (no accession number noted)
Notebook of correspondence, clippings and pertinent documents in “A Documental History of the Educational Memorabilia Center Little Red Schoolhouse Project at Bowling Green State University”, 1969-1976
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- Creation: 1969-1976
Notebook of photos of Bowling Green downtown buildings and private dwellings of historic interest. Photos from the Montgomery Ward fire are included (988.16.01)., undated
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- Creation: undated
Notebook of photos of area school scenes and students. These include Longfellow School, Bowling Greean State University, and Warren School in Toledo, Circa 1880-1962
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- Creation: Circa 1880-1962
Notebook of photos of Thompson Township schools taken by Ernest Roush when he was a superintendent in Sandusky and Seneca Counties, 1905-1909
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- Creation: 1905-1909
Notebook of grade cards, postcards, clippings, graduation keepsakes and the like for various northwest Ohio schools, 1886-1936
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- Creation: 1886-1936
Chart by Glenn Felch of comparative data on one-room school houses in Wood County, 1972
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- Creation: 1972
Diplomas (mostly Ohio), 1905-1928
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- Creation: 1905-1928
Proposal - floor plans for a one-room school house museum at BGSU, undated
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- Creation: undated
Eighth grade examination – Ottawa County, Ohio, 1915
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- Creation: 1915
Photos – Pupils of the Little Red School House #6 before it closed and was moved to BGSU, 1928-1934 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1928-1934 (scattered)
Photos – Pupils at the Longfellow School, Toledo, 1957-1965 (scattered)
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- Creation: 1957-1965 (scattered)
Photos – Bowling Green State Normal College graduate Cecelia Riester, 1915-1917
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- Creation: 1915-1917
Photos – Inside the Educational Memorabilia Center Little Red School House at BGSU, circa 1980
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- Creation: circa 1980
Photos - Photos of Ridge Street School and 2nd Bowling Green High School. Photo of Portage school and unidentified one-room school houses, undated
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- Creation: undated
Photos – Unidentified one-room school houses, undated
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Photos – President Franklin D. Roosevelt, undated
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Record book of donations to the Educational Memorabilia Center #1-#981.15.23, circa 1981
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- Creation: circa 1981
Miscellaneous teacher report forms and instructions, 1934-1938, undated
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- Creation: 1934-1938, undated
Map showing the locations of the District #6 school house before it was moved to BGSU, undated
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- Creation: undated
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Slate
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Slate
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Writing stylus
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Writing stylus
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Pen handle
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Pencil box
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Blue glass inkwell
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Blue-Green glass inkwell
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: Hand bell
Schoolhouse Artifact Box: McGuffey’s New Third Eclectic Reader
Attendance or Scholarship Record for District # 6 school house, 1925-1938
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- Creation: 1925-1938
Teaching and Testing Artifacts
Wooden puzzle, dissected map of the United States (item 475; donated by Ralph Wilcox Family, Norwalk, Ohio)
Spelling board (purchased by EMC fund)
Abacus
Metal frustum (item 829)
Wooden triangular fustrum (item 983.23.01, 828; donated by Ralph Wilcox Family)
Wooden two-piece pointer (item 983.06.01)
Springfield Industrial Drawing Kit (donated by Ada B. Lawrence?)
Metal addometer/ruler (item 993.07.01)
Bradley's Kindergarten Materials, wooden beaded pegs with board (item 1487, donated by G&R Hartman, Bowling Green, Ohio)
Fletcher Music Method, wooden box containing musical notation blocks (item 983.04.01)
Clements' historical cards, "The Rebellion" (item 483, donated by Ralph Wilcox Family)
Revised Stanford-Binet (item 989.06.03), 1937
- Dates
- Creation: 1937
Revised Stanford-Binet (item 990.06.01), 1937
- Dates
- Creation: 1937
Revised Stanford-Binet, 1937
- Dates
- Creation: 1937
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in suitcase with testing materials (item 989.06.02), 1949
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in suitcase with testing materials (item 989.06.01), 1949
- Dates
- Creation: 1949
Twenty-piece aptitude test
Stereoscopes (2) and stereocards (13) (donated by Crim Elementary)
Writing Artifacts
Leather covered wooden pencil box with hook closures
Wooden pencil box with sliding lid decorated with rose design
Wooden pencil box with Mother Hubbard design
Hinged wooden pencil box with equestrian scene printed on paper label (includes 8 pencils)
Glass pen tray with 7 lead styluses and 1 glass stylus (item 983.160.01 donated by Adelia Peters)
Brass pen tray engraved with a floral/leaf design
Brass pen tray
Tin pen box with pen nibs and brass holder with 5 nibs
Mini tin box for nibs decorated with Masonic emblem
2 fountain pens and 2 fountain pen caps
1 mechanical pencil - Sheaffer’s
Green onyx pen set – Sheaffer’s
9 pen handles with nibs
2 short pen handles with nibs
1 brass/mother of pearl pen handle with nib
3 pen handles
Brass letter opener
2 McGuffey metal printing plates (item 1464A and 1464B)
2 brass ink blotters
Box of soapstone styluses
Metal draftsman’s compass
Lyle Fletcher’s draftsman’s calipers (3) and a pen with nib (donated by Wood County Historical Society)
Lyle Fletcher’s draftsman kit (donated by Wood County Historical Society)
Small slate (item 434, donated by Elsass)
Small slate (item 982.19.15, donated by David Harkness)
2 small slates
2 small slates bound together, one broken
Medium slate - newer
Large slate (item 493)
Large slate (item 989.01.01)
Large slate (item 704, donated by Elsass)
Large slate with landscape painted on reverse (item 27)
Large slate (item 29)
Large slate (item 992.16.01)
Large double slate (item 533 donated by Ralph Wilcox)
Large double slate (item 531 donated by Ralph Wilcox)
Large double slate, one broken (item 1131)
Chalk board eraser
Large double slate (missing a slate) Used in Linder school house by Bertha Barber, note with item (item 983.157.01)
Large slate (item 492, purchased)
Large slate with cord attached, binding missing
Large slate binding tattered and missing in places
Large double slate, broken (item 282)
Large slate – Germ Proof - broken
Small slate with paper alphabet sheet, broken (item 532)
Small slate/writing desk/pencil box
Leather portable desk (item 985.13.111)
Slate Desk with wooden illustration cards, incomplete (item 1444, donated by Helen Dermer, Bowling Green, Ohio)
2 wooden chalk boxes with lids, American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio - includes chalk and 5 boxes of crayons (item 601, donated by Elsass)
Box of colored chalk
Inkwells and accessories
Wooden nut-shaped holder for clear glass inkwell (item 785.13.09)
Clear swirl patterned glass inkwell with hinged swirled pattern glass lid
Clear glass inkwell with hinged faceted glass lid
Clear glass inkwell with hinged metal lid
Clear glass round oversized inkwell, with hinged brass lid
Clear glass round oversized inkwell, with black hinged lid
Clear glass square inkwell (item 983.07.01)
Clear glass square inkwell (item 983.07.01)
Two clear glass round inkwells with black plastic / Bakelite lids and sliding covers (items 983.13.57 and 983.13.58)
Blue/green glass round inkwell (item 983.08.01)
Brown leather inkwell, with hinged lid (item 985.13.113)
Carter's ink bottle with stopper top, inside wooden traveling case
Metal inkwell, chipped blue paint and hinged lid
Blue/green glass octagonal inkwell
Blue/green glass round inkwell
Blue/green glass round inkwell with offset opening
Blue/green glass square inkwells (4)
Brown crockery inkwell
Cobalt glass square inkwell
Clear glass Parker round inkwell
Clear glass inkwell with brown plastic insert (The Davis)
Clear glass Sengbush self-closing inkwell (2)
Carter's ink bottle with red lid
Clear glass round inkwells with funnel-shaped openings (2)
Clear patterned glass square inkwells (2)
Clear glass square ink bottle holder and pen holder (T.W.N. Company)
Clear glass oval ink bottle, J.L. Brown & Sons, Boston
Clear glass Myer Phineas airtight ink stand (broken) (item number 985.13.60)
Clear glass dodecagonal inkwell with reservoir, Morgan's Patent
Clear glass octagonal inkwell with reservoir
Black ceramic William's ink pot
Black plastic Morriset Pen-Ink Unit
Black plastic Carter's Cube-Well
Ink pitcher of green-brown ceramic (item 985.13.73)
Heart-shaped gold metal and leather portable double inkwell with clear glass inserts (item 985.13.106)
Gold metal ice-bucket-shaped portable inkwell with ring handles and domed lid with clear glass insert (item 985.13.82)
Brass and silver metal round portable inkwell with clear glass insert (item 985.13.104)
Small brass inkwell/bottle with lid (item 985.13.97)
Leather-covered silver metal round portable inkwell with clear glass insert (item 985.13.114)
Small clear patterned glass inkwell with gold metal lid sitting in a square stand with attached gold metal pen rest (item 985.13.16)
Clear glass square inkwell with rubber insert, Royal Inkstand 307 (item 985.13.109)
Clear glass round inkwell in black wooden base (item 983.04.01)
Metal-brass round inkwell with clear glass insert (item 985.13.10)
Metal-brass round inkwell with clear glass insert (item 985.13.18)
Metal-brass rectangular inkwell with clear glass insert, Mergott Company
Metal-brass square inkwell, green glass insert (item 985.13.10?)
Metal square inkwell painted red brown with Art Nouveau-style floral, milk glass insert (item 985.13.03)
Porcelain square inkwell/stand painted gold, includes lid
Wooden round inkwell/stand with bark, Watertown, NY, clear glass insert (item 985.13.68)
Brown-painted metal round inkwell, clear glass insert (item 985.13.15)
Red lacquer square wooden inkwell with painted Asian scenery, clear glass insert (item 985.13.01)
Box of ink
Other School-Related Artifacts
Leather book belt
5 McGuffey Readers
Leather book belt surrounding 2 text books
Gray graniteware water dipper (item 1404)
Tin lunch pail, 8" tall (item 983.40.01)
Blue graniteware lunch pail, 3.5" tall
Handbell, 6" diameter, cracked (item 58)
Handbell, 4" diameter
Handbell, 4" diameter (item 1128)
Handbell, 3" diameter
Double surface Hektograph (item 982.25.01)
Small cast iron scales with six weights (item 982.11.10, donated by Gerald G. Laukhuf)
Long wooden chalk box with lid
Miniature wooden school desk (craft item for display)
Metal trophy "All City Champions, Grammar School League" (permanent loan from Adelia Peters), 1911
- Dates
- Creation: 1911