School Memory Collage, perhaps from Rock County, Wisconsin
date: label: date made
content: 1891-1930
notes: label: Description
content: This mixed-media collage is in an oval, dark wooden frame and is under glass. It contains six items mounted on top of a material mimicking the United States flag but with an excess of stars. In the center, is a black and white photograph of about a dozen children standing in front of a rural one-room schoolhouse. The remaining objects include: a black and white photograph of a woman, presumably the teacher; a 4-H Club third place ribbon awarded at the Rock County fair; a poem from one of the students; a page from an illustrated children’s book; and a page from Rays New Practical Arithmetic, a popular arithmetic textbook. This college was assembled after July 24, 1891, which is the date of the poem. The image may be of a school in Rock County, Wisconsin, which had a population of about 43,000 in 1890. We do not know who assembled this commemorative of a school experiences, but memory books, albums, and framed pieces were common in the late 1800's and throughout the first part of the following century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.069
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.069
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collage
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 16 in x 1 1/4 in; 33.02 cm x 40.64 cm x 3.175 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 10 in x 13 in; 25.4 cm x 33.02 cm