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A classroom wall chart had to make sense from the back row. These surviving charts use color, scale, and cutaways to teach subjects from flower anatomy to the night sky. Each image shows a chart made for instruction, with its maker or publisher and date when known.

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Planetary System, Levi Walter Yaggy
Planetary System, Levi Walter Yaggy: In this 1887 chart from Yaggy’s Geographical Study, the large blue diagram shows the…
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Cuckooflower, Jung, Koch and Quentell
Cuckooflower, Jung, Koch and Quentell: This 1909 edition of the German teaching chart shows the entire cuckooflower…
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Passionflower, Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port
Passionflower, Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port: Published in the Dodel-Ports’ 1878–1883 botanical teaching series, the chart…
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Ergot Fungus, Jung, Koch and Quentell
Ergot Fungus, Jung, Koch and Quentell: A head of grain appears beside enlarged cross-sections and spores in this 1909…
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Liverwort, Jung, Koch and Quentell
Liverwort, Jung, Koch and Quentell: This 1909 chart turns a small liverwort into a lesson in how plants reproduce. Green…
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Geological Chart, Levi Walter Yaggy
Geological Chart, Levi Walter Yaggy: This 1893 chart in Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio cuts through an entire landscape…
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Lacewings, Antlions and Caddisflies, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts
Lacewings, Antlions and Caddisflies, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts: This late nineteenth-century chart from the…
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Beetle Development, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts
Beetle Development, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts: Theodor Fischer published this late nineteenth-century chart in…
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L’Antre alcoolique, Les Fils d’Émile Deyrolle
L’Antre alcoolique, Les Fils d’Émile Deyrolle: Issued around 1900, this French wall chart by Gustave Philippon and Dr…
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Human and Quadruped Thorax, Sapienza Teaching Collection
Human and Quadruped Thorax, Sapienza Teaching Collection: An unidentified illustrator made this nineteenth-century Italian…
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Thorax With Pneumothorax, Sapienza Teaching Collection
Thorax With Pneumothorax, Sapienza Teaching Collection: In this nineteenth-century Italian anatomy chart, a shrunken lung…
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The Five Zones, Levi Walter Yaggy
The Five Zones, Levi Walter Yaggy: This 1887 chart divides the Earth’s climates into five bands. Different landscapes…
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Mammals, Japanese Ministry of Education
Mammals, Japanese Ministry of Education: Hattori Sessai illustrated this 1873 classroom chart of mammals, compiled by…
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Second Phrase Chart, Japanese Ministry of Education
Second Phrase Chart, Japanese Ministry of Education: An illustration of a classroom sits beside columns of short phrases on…
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Periodic Table Wall Chart, Lenoir & Forster
Periodic Table Wall Chart, Lenoir & Forster: Printed in Vienna in 1885, this large chart sets out the periodic pattern of…
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Forms and Solids, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins
Forms and Solids, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins: In this 1890 chart for school and home instruction, rows of diagrams…
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Chromatic Scale of Colors, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins
Chromatic Scale of Colors, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins: This 1890 chart places hand-colored swatches beside one…
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Electricity and Electroplating, Bouasse-Lebel
Electricity and Electroplating, Bouasse-Lebel: Maison Basset issued this chart around 1873 as part of the Bouasse-Lebel…
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Siphonophores, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts
Siphonophores, Leuckart’s Zoological Wall Charts: This German teaching chart uses enlarged views of siphonophores to show…
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Elementary Drawing and Perspective, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins
Elementary Drawing and Perspective, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins: This 1890 school chart progresses from flat outlines…
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Lines and Measures, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins
Lines and Measures, Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins: Printed in New York in 1890, this chart moves from straight, wavy…

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