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A rectangular pine frame enclosing a conforming slate. The frame is printed with geometric shapes, architectural facades, perspectual images on one side, the alphabet and numbers, Roman numerals and a selecion of 32 four letter words on one side.
tablets
slate (rock)
pine (wood)
printing (process)
alphabets (symbols)
geometric patterns
numerals
Pine
Slate
Geometric
Alphabet
Numbers
Chalkboard
Printed on the top, on one side is: The/Natural/Slates Primary School/Manufactured and Published by WILDE(?) BOWLER & CO. BOSTON.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Wilde Bowler & Co. (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
8 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.924
Massachusetts (United States)
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