Barnes Museum - Pease One-Room Schoolhouse Project

Do you have any of the items listed below needed for the Pease Schoolhouse Project?

Contact: Carol LeBreck
715-795-2540
Email:  carol.k.lebreck@uwrf.edu

           *** List of items being sought for the Pease One-Room School *** 

Most of these items will be used to create a replica of a “small classroom” as students might have experienced in the early 1900s.  Others will be displayed throughout the schoolhouse.

• Tall hand pump for outside
• Map case with pull-down/roll-up maps [or other old maps]
• Large wind-up  wall clock with pendulum
• Old bookcase  [Barrister/Lawyer style - would be interesting]
• Small-sized pot belly stove
• Early US Flag [for wall mount with pole]
• Hand-held slate boards; erasers, chalk
• Organ stool
• Old textbooks & Library books – K-8 grade levels
• Kerosene lamps:  wall-mounted style and hanging style
• Water cooler [Gray porcelain or blue & white Ceramic - see photo]
• Table model, battery-powered  Radio [for “School On the Air” programs]
• Lunch buckets, pails, boxes
• Photos – Washington, Lincoln, etc.
• Globe [we have one dated to the 70s, but others would be welcomed]
• Cursive writing scroll and other teaching resources typically displayed in classrooms
• Small teacher’s desk