2003.70.89A-B
Description
- Médias
- Image
- Type d'élément
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- (A) - wooden cube box; sides are secured by dove tails; base is nailed to sides; lid (B) slides on top through groove, sits flat to make top of cube; outside of box is finished, inside is not; 2 screws with nuts on end stick through opposite sides of box securing a brass ring inside box, ring spins between 2 screws; connected to ring by 2 metal posts is a compass; spins inside rings
- compass is brass; cylindrical with curved bottom; glass top inside has central spool shaped nut with white disk pivoting around it; disk shows direction markings in black arrows; graduated marking around edge of disk; at north is a shield
- inside front side; upside down reads: "B" in black
(B) - flat; wood; lid; notch cut out on top; 3 routered edges slide into a groove on (A); top finished, underside not (L-12cm, W-11.7cm, H-.9cm)
- 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
- 10.2cm H / 12.6cm L
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 082 - 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 082 - 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
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