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This is a picture of a one room schoolhouse. There were desks, stone slabs to write on ,and sheep skins for erasers. Also, from this picture you can see the teacher's desk and the stone slab she was to write on, hanging on the wall. There is a wood stove that the teacher would use to warm her classroom with. |
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This
is a picture of the stone slabs used to write all documents and studies
on. It has a slate pencil that one could write with. Also each student
was to recieve a sheep skin as a eraser
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This
is a picture of the bookbags each student would have to carry their books
and work in to home and back. They were used in the late eighteen hundreds
to the early nineteen hundreds.
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This
is the common wood stove of an one-room schoolhouses. The teachers could
use it to warm the rooms during the day because there was no other source
of heat and no other rooms in the building.
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This
is one individual students' desk. It has their stone slate and slate pencil.
Also the sheepskin used to erase the slate with.
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