Pass-along Test Card
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Limited [publisher]
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card
Measurements
Each card (min) - 90 mm (length); 48 mm (height), Each card (max) - 147 mm (length); 115 mm (height), Envelope - 155 mm (length); 120 mm (height)
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 668316
Summary
A set of twenty assorted test cards in thin card in a torn white envelope. The envelope has 'Alexander Performance, Pass-along Test Cards, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh' printed in blue onit. The envelope is very torn. There are two small picture cards, one a pen and ink drawing of a gun, the other an umbrella, then ten larger cards with coloured shapes on them and eight large cards with different sizes of red and blue squares and rectangles. They are all numbered. Total number of items is 21.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Makers and roles
Thomas Nelson and Sons, Limited [publisher], printer