One-Room Schoolhouse trunk

Students learn what it was like to attend school in the 19th and early 20th centuries through hands-on school supplies, photographs, books, and teaching materials.

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  • Slate boards (5)
  • Glass ink well
  • School handbell
  • Cloth ball
  • Large US flag
  • Small US flag
  • 1900s lunch pail (2)
  • Chalk tin with chalk and two slate pencils
  • Ball and cup game
  • McGuffey Readers books, levels one to six (10)
  • Selections from schoolhouse books (23 laminated cards)
  • Steel pen
  • Arithmetic book
  • Wood sliding pencil box
  • 19th-century punishment list
  • Indian Territory teacher’s certificate
  • State of Oklahoma teacher’s certificate
  • Photographs of one-room schools, teachers, and students (11)
  • Oklahoma Territory teacher’s contract
  • Student letter to Miss Cornelia Ratcliff
  • Books: Classroom Games and A One-Room School
  • Cards for One-Room School game and a Spelling Bee
  • Curriculum guide

The trunk includes a chalk slate, historical papers, a bell, books and photographs.