Schoolroom pictures during the time of St. Philippine Duchesne

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.

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
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.
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.
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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