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Diorama-like school room; teacher stands on platform at a podium; 13 children seated on benches with desks; open box form with high sides; partial roof extending over front third; exterior decoupaged double-hung windows and door; front side folds down and befcomes floor area for desks; interior back and side walls covered in blue and white floral wallpaper with plaid border; lower walls covered in paper printed to look like paneling; side walls with double-hung paper windows; all figures carved in wood and covered with glass; painted.
toys (recreational artifacts)
wood (plant material)
paper (fiber product)
paint by composition or origin
découpage (image making technique)
glass (material)
school buildings by function
childhood
Carved
Wood
Paper
Decoupage
Childhood
Education
Used At Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
8 3/4 x 15 5/8 x 13 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.763
Europe
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