In 2015 and 2016, construction crews visited Emerson North High School, they thought they will see just ordinary work there.
But what they saw was anything but that — historic drawings from the early 1900’s.
The boards were showing the rich history of the school which was established in 1911.point 367 |
The principal at the time, Sherry Kishore loved the historical treasures.point 63 | She said they provided a glimpse into people that were in this building before and the way they taught.point 148 | point 148 | 1
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The workers who renovating the school in downtown Oklahoma City found slate blackboards with incredibly well-preserved pieces dating back to 1917.point 236 |
They discovered an old multiplication wheel as well as civic and music lessons.point 67 | All from the year when the first Jazz record was released.point 115 | The Original Dixieland Jazz Band would be happy.point 156 | They also found rules for keeping clean and a vocabulary list with words like “blunder” and “choke” written in cursive.point 264 |
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Later, the school changed old chalkboards to make room for smart boards.point 281 |
When the workers were called again they found priceless artifacts.point 57 | A detailed rendering of Oklahoma’s Indian territory, more sentences were in cursive, and various shapes explaining perspective.point 170 | Some flowers in different shades of green and yellow.point 215 |
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The present principal of the school, Jack L.point 257 |
Reed, M.point 7 | Ed.point 10 | , took the position after his predecessor, Ms.point 49 | Kishore, was promoted to Alternative Education Director for the Oklahoma City Public Schools.point 130 | She was the one who informed him about the discoveries.point 176 | “A few of them are exposed with an acrylic glass protecting them,” Mr.point 238 |
Reed told Bored Panda.point 19 | “Others have a sheet of plywood covering them until funding can be received to purchase and install the acrylic glass to expose them.point 132 | ”point 135 | 1
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“These boards have a significance to the school that the teachers and students could not have realized back in 1917.point 209 |
They have survived the test of time and now represent the school in a way that no person could have imagined.point 89 | ”point 92 | 1
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