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A student's chalkboard in a case, both of rectangular shape. The case is of blueish-grey painted pine with extended top and bottom, hinged doors with a wire hook closure on either side. Inside the double-sided slate is a molded pine frame and leather chalkholder inside the door.
tablets
iron (metal)
nailing
pine (wood)
blackboard slate
wire
Pine
Slate
Wire
Iron
Pegged
Nailed
Chalkboard
The inside slate is chalked with Little family writing including children's diary entries- one line, summer dates, and children's signatures.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 3/4 x 11 3/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.926
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