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Some lazy custodian forgot to clean a chalkboard in 1917…

10:58 AM EDT on June 8, 2015

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Last week, workers renovating Emerson High School in downtown Oklahoma City found some cool stuff when they uncovered old chalkboards. I'll let Tim Willert with NewsOK.com explain...

The past came alive this week at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City, when workers discovered slate blackboards with almost perfectly preserved writings and drawings dating back nearly 100 years.

The chalkboards, dedicated Nov. 30 and Dec. 4, 1917, were discovered in three classrooms during MAPS for Kids renovations at the school, 715 N Walker. In addition to math, reading, music and handwriting lessons, rules for keeping clean appeared on the board along with a history lesson about the Pilgrims.

City and school district officials will decide how to preserve the blackboards.