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Early School Exhibit
Dated late 1800's, the Early School Exhibit hosts many notable artifacts including a notebook dated February 1892, text books from the 1890's, as vintage pictures like the Waynesburg High School picture of the classes of 1921 to 1924!
Original chalkboard slates,children school clothing, and a wooden pencil box are among the items you can see at the museum's Early School Exhibit.
Early Children Toys
Some toys were simple yet satisfying to children in the late 1800's, and other toys were predecessors to a more technological advancement era of toys.
Stereoscopes and Stereoscope Cards
Stereoscopes, also known as stereopticons or stereo viewers, were one of America's most popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The first patented stereoscope was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838. Wheatstone had experimented with simple stereoscopic drawings in 1832, several years before photography was invented. Later, the two principles were combined to form the stereoscope.
Stereoscopic cards were the accessory to the Stereoscope. Two separate images are printed side-by-side. With the magnified lens, the point of focus is extended from a short distance to infinity, thus allowing the eyes focal point to be consistent with the parallel lines of sight giving the viewer a three dimensional image. Stereograms cards are frequently used by vision therapists in the treatment of many binocular vision and other eye disorders.
Jacks A Green
This very early game was originally called “knucklebones”, “dibs”, or “jackstones”. Sheep knucklebones were originally used and later substituted with small pebbles or marbles. Metal jacks were not widely used until the nineteenth century. Before the invention of the rubber ball, a bone, pebble, or wooden ball was used.
Doctor's Office Exhibit
Take a trip back to the early 1900's and meet Bones and his Doctor's Office! In the early 1900's it was quite common for a doctor to set up shop in his home in a small community. The fees ranged from 75 cents to $1.50 per visit. A community Doctor was well respected in the community as he treated everyone equally, from the poor to those who were able to pay. The Doctor's exhibit includes medical books, scales, patient table, prescription books from 1933, surgical equipment, and many other interesting artifacts pertaining to the world of vintage medicine.
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