Literacy Loans

The objects

Choose an original historical object from Tees Valley museum collections, to share with your students and care for in your classroom. Each has stories of past lives to tell and the power to spark the imagination. Click on an object for more detail and how to get started with a Literacy Loan.

A round roman oil lamp. There is a handle, and two holes on the vessel, a smaller one in the centre and a larger hole on the edge. The light coloured lamp is sitting on a desk, on top of white tissue paper. There is a label nearby which reads '1948.6.1 Roman Oil Lamp'.

Roman Oil Lamp

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Sperm Whale Tooth

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Poss Stick

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Victorian ‘Wells’ Hand Lamp

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Stockton and Darlington Railway- Section of fish belly rail

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wooden peg doll with articulating arms and legs. No clothes and a white painted face.

Peg Doll

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SSI UK Helmet

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A painting of three people on rocks near a lighthouse. Two women are standing talking, while a man is pulling a boat to shore by rope. There are three men in the boat, a man at the front is reaching out and grabbing the rope. The boat has 'Ellen' wrote on the side.

The Lighthouse, Hartlepool

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Boab Nut

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Taxidermy examples

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WW2 Field Telephone

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North Eastern Railway Hand Lamp

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photograph of an African drum. Wooden goblet shaped drum with goat skin drum. There are ropes holding the drum in place. There are carvings on the bottom.

African Djembe Drum

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