Practical Measurements/ The Potential Mode Illustrated
date: label: date made
content: 1901
label: date made
content: 1894
notes: label: Description
content: This large, two sided teaching chart or poster was created by Diamond Lithothography Publishing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota and designed to teach children practical applications of math and grammer.
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content: Side A - Practical Measurements: This richly colored and illlustrated chart displays a variety of geometric shapes (e.g., circle, rectangle, triangle) that are divided/dissected by grid lines. It also illustrates several spatial relationships (e.g., relation of a cube to a sphere). There are four boxes which contain instructions for teacher use and definitions of terms.
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content: Side B - The Potential Mode Illustrated - The top half depicts an idyllic landscape with a river and rapids, and bright green trees and vegetation. The following words are dotted along the landscape in all caps:
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content: Past Tense, Past Perfect Tense, Present Tense, and Present Perfect Tense. The lower half contains a comprehensive definition and examples of the uses of the conjunction. It also contains "formulas" for parsing the conjunction and the adverb.
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content: The "New Education" was advertised to present classes through "five thousand colored lithographs" for arithemetic, bookkeeping, business forms, common correspondence, government, house building, and surveying. The colorful posters were designed to instruct in an Object method that was "simple, practical, and scientific and as such it is commended to every progressive teacher." These were beautifully illustrated, with each poster containing a paragraph or two of suggestions for even novice teachers on how to most effectively instruct using each poster. The set was produced at a time when about half U.S. schools were one or two room country schools with multi-age classrooms.
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content: The museum owns three other double sided charts from the same series which also include grammer instruction:Applications of The Mechanics of Arithmetic / Application of Measures of Weight; Weights and Measures/The Participle Illustrated and The Subjunctive Mode Illustrated/Fractions Illustrated.
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content: Diamond Publishing was a school Supply Company based in Minneapolis and known to be active 1890's-1910. They advertised tas being the largest company for educational books and supplies though that is debatable.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
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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: 2017.0095.068
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.068
objectType: label: Object Name
content: teaching chart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 106.5 cm x 71.3 cm; 41 15/16 in x 28 1/16 in