Object Record
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Metadata
Object Name |
Desk, School |
Subject |
Children & Youth Children & Youth Organizations Education Schools Domestic Life Furniture Tools 1890s 1910s Children's & Youth's Activities Educational Materials |
Category |
2: Building Furnishings |
Sub-category |
Furniture |
Accession Number |
2017.002.001 |
Donor |
Rick Burfoot |
Description |
Salvaged from old Mission Central School - back of desk is table for the child in the seat behind - shelf underneath desktop to store supplies in - ornate metal sides of desk - carved out indent and hole ontop of desk for pen and inkwell to rest in - made of wood and cast iron |
Provenance |
In 1896, the 3rd Mission Central School was constructed at Property #7 by Martin F. Tupper. It was a two-room building with no basement. In 1911, a new Central School was built on the site of present-day Mission Central Elementary. These 2 desks came from an auction that occurred in the mid-1980's to clear the school of old "clutter". It is unclear if they would have been new purchases for the 1911 construction, or were moved from the previous building for re-use there. Purchaser Dave Brunning, who was a painter for the Mission School Board at the time, recalls two men in approximately their 80's scouring the desks for where they had carved their initials as children, in order to purchase "their" desks. Neither of the former school buildings remain standing, the present-day school having been constructed in 1990. |
Accession number |
2017.002 |