Chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school

[ehrnst]

"Teachers and students scribbled the lessons — multiplication tables, pilgrim history, how to be clean — nearly 100 years ago. And they haven’t been touched since.

This week, contractors removing old chalkboards at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City made a startling discovery: Underneath them rested another set of chalkboards, untouched since 1917.

“The penmanship blows me away, because you don’t see a lot of that anymore,” Emerson High School Principal Sherry Kishore told the Oklahoman. “Some of the handwriting in some of these rooms is beautiful.”




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[phantom power]

1. very cool

[bluesbassman]

2. So cool! I do hope they will find a way to preserve and display those.

[Warpy]

4. The Smithsonian will likely grab and preserve them

This would make a great exhibit there.

[bluesbassman]

6. Yes indeed! That would be perfect!

Good call.

[FSogol]

3. Why did they cancel Dec 2, 3, and 31 from that calendar?

Despite their handwriting (probably the teacher's to be copied by the students), they could not count to 2 successfully.

[Codeine]

5. Nice catch.

The 31st should be on a Monday.

[SeattleVet]

7. Looks like a November, 2017 calendar...

where they were just starting to switch over to December. All of the dates except for the first row match for November, and they have a Thanksgiving type of chalk drawing.

[FSogol]

9. Perhaps, but 2 and 3 are missing. n/t

[SeattleVet]

12. It looks like the only entry for December was the first week (only the 1st).

The next week (and all the others) are from November. Not sure why they'd do it that way, but the calendars match up for the rest of November.

[Tom_Foolery]

11. And Thursday the 29th is written in red...

So that must have been Thanksgiving, which is a red-letter day.

[SeattleVet]

8. Another one of the pictures

shows the contractors that hung the then-new chalkboards over these:

http://kfor.com/2015/06/05/piece-of-history-discovered-behind-walls-of-oklahoma-city-high-school/

[MBS]

10. Wow, very cool.

Thanks for posting this.