The SubjunctiveMode Illustrated/ Fractions Illustrated
date: label: date made
content: 1895-1905
notes: label: Description
content: This large, two sided teaching chart or poster was created by Diamond Lithography Publishing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota and designed to teach children practical applications of math and grammar.
label: Description
content: SIDE A - The Subjunctive Mode Illustrated: The top half depicts an idyllic landscape with waterfall, river, and rocky cliffs covered with bright green trees and vegetation. The following words are dotted along the landscape in all caps: Past Tense, Present Tense, Past Perfect Tense. The lower half contains a comprehensive definition of the various types and uses of the adverb (e.g, to delineate time and place; to modify words and phrases). Detailed examples are provided for each usage. Two boxes in the lower right corner provide guidance to the teacher in the proper use of this teaching tool.
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content: SIDE B - Fractions Illustrated: The top colorfully depicts a watermelon and various geometric shapes (e.g., circle, rectangle, cube) broken down into a range of possible fractions The lower half graphically depicts how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions through the use of red circles and blocks. There are five boxes that explain the preferred teaching methods to use to explain each function. The authoritative tone can best be summed up by the following sentence: "If the teacher will use the method laid down in this chart, the subject will be divested of all difficulty."
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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: Practical Measurements/ The Potential Mode Illustrated; Weights and Measures/The Participle Illustrated and Applications of The Mechanics of Arithmetic / Application of Measures of Weight.
label: Description
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: 2017.0095.403
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