Copper sculpting/modeling tool hand fashioned to create a flattened, spoon-like handle leading to a rounded shank ending in another flattened end bent at the tip to create a short 1/2" extension bent to nearly a right angle for working in clay or plaster. End is squared off. Crude but effective tool for sculpting bears marks of hammering, especially underside of flattened handle. Used by Lloyd Mifflin. Tool presumed to have been fashioned by Lloyd Mifflin himself from a length of copper. Provenance: Mifflin to the Minnich sisters to the groundskeeper at Norwood to donors.
Photograph- Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
Photograph- Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
Description
Professor Joseph Landis, superintendent of the Model School at Millersville Normal School and a group of 28 children. Nine are listed on back of the photo: Charles Reese, John Brenner, Anne Reese, Eddie Brooks, Lizzie Weeks, Thad Mellinger, Lizzie Shaub, Jacob Bowman, Nettie Kahler, and ? Baker
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
