Slate
date: label: date made
content: 1800 - 1870
label: Associated Date
content: 1897-09-21
name: label: owner
content: Copp Family
notes: label: Description
content: This writing slate belonged to the Copp family of Stonington, Connecticut during the 19th century. Slate boards like this one were primarily owned for schooling, with student practicing writing on one side and arithmetic on the other. Slate boards and slate pencils were more economical than pencils, pens, and paper and were the most popular writing instrument for schoolchildren during the 19th century.
label: Description
content: The Copp Collection contains a variety of household objects that the Copp family of Connecticut used from around 1700 until the mid-1800s. Part of the Puritan Great Migration from England to Boston, the family eventually made their home in New London County, Connecticut, where their textiles, clothes, utensils, ceramics, books, bibles, and letters provide a vivid picture of daily life. More of the collection from the Division of Home and Community Life can be viewed by searching accession number 28810.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New England
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: Subject
content: School
label: Subject
content: Writing
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Copp Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.006825.01
label: accession number
content: 28810
label: catalog number
content: 6825.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: slate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: slate (writing surface material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (nails material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (thumbtacks material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 8 3/8 in x 1/2 in; 26.035 cm x 21.2725 cm x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: writing surface: 8 in x 6 1/8 in; 20.32 cm x 15.5575 cm