2003.70.84
Description
- Médias
- Image
- Type d'élément
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- (A) - 3 legged black metal stand has column which extends upward; black metal handle forms 90 degree angle with the column; attached to other side of column opposite the handle is black metal disc; disc had 9 cm perpendicular edge that runs 3/4 the way around and has square cutout ; attached to opposite edge covering square is rectangular piece of metal; 7 slits in metal sit between sides perpendicular to rectangle attached with screws; slits allow light source through; attached to cloumn of stand through disc is silver metal disc
- disc had numbers around edge representing angles; graduated marking in black are under numbers running around the edge
- 3 threaded posts form triangle near centre of disc; spool shaped nuts are attched to end of each post; in black on disk are geometirc shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle with concave sides)
- upside down on the disc is a decorative circle stamped in black; writing in circle reads in part: "[?]/ESTABLISHED/1880/WELCH/SKOKIE, ILLINOIS/[?]"
- under stamp is white Kent County Board of Education label
(B)- metal rectangle; curved end; 4 rectangle cutouts of different sizes; slides between slides attached to rectangle attached to outside edge of (A)
- used in science labs at CCI in early 1900s
- first school built at corner of Murray and Prince streets in 1855, known as Chatham Grammar School
- 1870s school was turned into a high school
- 1887 school obtained collegiate status
- September 1940 the building on site today was opened
- spring of 2002 school was slated to be closed a campaign to keep it open lasted one year and school finally closed in spring of 2003
- Date unknown
- 42cm H / 34.6cm L
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 079 - Sujet(s)
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Déclaration de droit d'auteur
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Emplacement d'original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 079 - Conditions d'utilisation
- Copies are provided for research and private study only. Permission to use images in any other way including, but not limited to, publication, exhibition, film, video or TV broadcast, or on any CD or website, must be obtained in writing from an authorized representative of the Chatham-Kent Museum prior to use. This applies to low-resolution copies downloaded from this site at no cost and to high resolution copies.
- Contacter
- Chatham-Kent MuseumCourriel:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
Adresse Internet:
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Chatham, ON N7M 4L4
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