Weights and Measures./ The Participle Illustrated
date: label: date made
content: 1895-1905
notes: label: Description
content: This large, two sided teaching chart or poster was created by by Diamond Lithography Publishing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota and designed to teach children practical applications of math and grammer.
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content: SIDE A - Weights and Measures depicts a series of colorful and creative illustrations depict scales used in the process of measuring both liquid and dry weights (e.g., troy weight). There are three boxes that contain specific instructions and suggestions for teacher use. There is a box with detailed instructions for teacher use.
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content: SIDE B - The Participle Illustrated depicts comprehensive definitions and examples of the use of participles (e.g., Past Participle, Present Participle) on the top half. The bottom half illustrates the Construction of the Infinitive by instructions printed on the U.S. flag held by a medieval knight in armor.
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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; Applications of The Mechanics of Arithmetic / Application of Measures of Weight, and The Subjunctive Mode Illustrated/Fractions Illustrated.
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: 2017.0095.404
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