collectionsexploresetsChildren and DesksChildren and DesksShareshareCopy LinkWhether at home, at school, or in the form of a toy, desks help shape the way children prepare for adult life.Doll Slant-Front Desk, circa 1760View ArtifactChild's Fall-front Desk, 1750-1800View ArtifactDoll Slant-Front Desk, 1790-1810View ArtifactDoll Slant-Front Desk, 1860-1880View ArtifactSchool Desks, circa 1900 - 1View ArtifactYoung Girl Playing School with Dolls and a Peter Rabbit Stuffed Toy, circa 1920View ArtifactDoll Desk and Chair, 1915-1921View ArtifactFamily Time at Home, 1924 - 1View ArtifactChautauqua Industrial Art Desk, 1926-1930View ArtifactStudents and Teacher in a One-Room School near Richmond Hill, Georgia, circa 1940 - 1View ArtifactSchool Desk, Used at the Shrine of the Little Flower Grade School, 1940-1949View ArtifactEdison Institute Schools Students in Class, Giddings Family Home, Greenfield Village, September 1944View ArtifactDoll Schoolroom Furniture Set, 1940-1950View ArtifactU.S. Army Training Center Play Set, 1945-1955View ArtifactSecretary Mechanical Toy, 1950-1960View ArtifactEdison Institute Schools Students in Town Hall Classroom, Greenfield Village, 1969View ArtifactFisher-Price Play Family School, 1971-1975View ArtifactFisher-Price "School Days Play Desk," 1975View ArtifactBarbie Travel Agent Play Set, 1986-1989View Artifact
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