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Object of the Week for September 6

School Days - Welcome Back!

Many of us are heading back to school this week or have already rejoined the classroom. Welcome back! Did your first day back at school look like this painting, "School Scene" by J. C. Huntington in the American Art Museum?

P.E. Class: Rope Skipping Educational Video from 1965

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  1. ...or you can try some school calisthenics as depicted in this Japanese print!
  2. Could you imagine P.E. class in this uniform?
  3. Story Time of "Cameron Goes to School" with the Postal Museum
  4. Explore Brown v Board of Education on American History's exhibition site
  5. ... and a stamp commemorating it!
  6. Back to School Supplies of the Past with American History
  7. Explore the successful design of a pencil sharpener with Cooper Hewitt
  8. SI Spotlight: School Days objects