2003.70.119
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Images, Electronic
- Description
- - round wooden base; "Y"- shaped wooden frame attached vertically to centre of base; inset on one arm of the "Y", printed in black on white is a graduated scale with "0" in the centre and "50" on each end; below the scale is a carved out rectangle; a "U"-shaped glass tube is attached to the "Y" with 2 metal clips near the bottom; the remnants of 2 more clips are attached at the top of the arms of the "Y"; the ends of the "U" shaped tube are glass bulbs; just below the bulbs a glass tube connects the 2 arms of the "U"; a glass stopper runs through a vertical tube in the centre of the horizontal tube
- 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
- 12cm D / 37cm H
Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 079 - Subject(s)
- Collection
- Chatham Kent Museum
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Chatham Kent Museum
Out in the Open exhibition
VS 079 - Terms of Use
- 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.
- Contact
- Chatham-Kent MuseumEmail:ckcccmuseum@chatham-kent.ca
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Chatham, ON N7M 4L4
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