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Director of Education Stacia Smith discusses the historiscope, an educational toy manufactured by Milton Bradley & Company of Springfield, MA, circa 1868 to 1890. It features a scrolling set of hand-colored lithographs wound around two vertical wooden dowels with metal handles set into a cardboard box that allowed a child to present one image after the other to a gathering of family or friends. Twenty-four scenes based on popular contemporary prints or paintings depict critical events in the early history of America. Twelve of the vignettes are dedicated to story of the American Revolution. Accompanying the historiscope was an advertising broadside, a script, and two tickets for a live presentation.
View “The Siege of Charleston,” a lesson from one of our master teachers that prompts students to tell the story of the Revolutionary War with a historiscope of their own design here:
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Director of Education Stacia Smith discusses the historiscope, an educational toy manufactured by Milton Bradley & Company of Springfield, MA, circa 1868 to 1890. It features a scrolling set of hand-colored lithographs wound around two vertical wooden dowels with metal handles set into a cardboard box that allowed a child to present one image after the other to a gathering of family or friends. Twenty-four scenes based on popular contemporary prints or paintings depict critical events in the early history of America. Twelve of the vignettes are dedicated to story of the American Revolution. Accompanying the historiscope was an advertising broadside, a script, and two tickets for a live presentation.
View “The Siege of Charleston,” a lesson from one of our master teachers that prompts students to tell the story of the Revolutionary War with a historiscope of their own design here:
americanrevolutioninstitute.org/master-teacher-lesson-plans/the-revolutionary-war/siege-of-charleston-1780
SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJ
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Visit our website: americanrevolutioninstitute.org
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