Browse Items (22 total)
- Collection: Public Education (E-2)
Bill Maudlin, For Whom The Bell Tolled
Bill Maudlin, For Whom The Bell Tolled, Library of Congress, May 27 1959
Political ‘cartoon’ of Arkansas governor Orval Eugene Faubus being held down by the Liberty Bell. The Bell has been inscribed with “Little Rock School…
Tags: African-Americans, Arkansas, Cartoons, Integration, Little Rock Schools, Orval Eugene Faubus, Racism, Segregation
The Stamford Historical Society, New England Primer Part One
The Stamford Historical Society, New England Primer Part One, The Stamford Historical Society, 1990
Pages from the most popular and used textbook of the 18th century, the New England Primer. Using illustrations, rhyme, and often biblical context,…
Tags: 18th Century, ABCs, American Revolution, Colonies, Education, Equal Opportunity, New England Primer
LBJ For Kids, President Johnson Signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
LBJ For Kids, President Johnson Signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, LBJ Library, 11/4/1965
President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Elementary and Secondary Education Act at a signing ceremony. He sits besides his childhood schoolteacher Ms.…
Tags: Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Equal Access, Equal Opportunities, LBJ, National Curriculum, Presidents, School Funding
Current photo - Frank Schulenberg Old photo -Anderson Valley Historical Society, The Peachland School (present and old)
Current photo - Frank Schulenberg Old photo -Anderson Valley Historical Society, The Peachland School (present and old), Anderson Valley Historical Society, Current photo - 2012 Old photo -c. 1925
A black and white photograph of students with their teacher at the Peachland school. Though schools were still important in the 1920’s, many of them…
Tags: 1920s, One-Room School, Peachland School, Schools
Hampton University, Alice Mabel Bacon, Educator
Hampton University, Alice Mabel Bacon, Educator, Duke University, Unknown
A black and white photograph of Alice Mabel Bacon, an American writer, educator, and foreign advisor to the Japanese government. When Alice Bacon’s…
Tags: Alice Mabel Bacon, Dixie Hospital, Japan, Japanese, Schools, Tokyo, Women
Unknown, Nannie Burroughs, Woman's National Baptist Convention
Unknown, Nannie Burroughs, Woman's National Baptist Convention, Library of Congress, 1905-1915
Nannie Burroughs leading the Woman’s National Baptist Convention with other members of the convention. Nannie Burroughs was an African-American…
Tags: African-Americans, Nannie Burroughs, Training School for Women and Girls, Wages, Women, Women's National Baptist Convention
Bain, William Albert Wirt
Bain, William Albert Wirt, Library of Congress, 1917
Growing up in a rural farm in Gary, Indiana, William Wirt believed that this upbringing was as elementary to education as many teachings, so when he…
Tags: Education, Indiana, Recreation, Schools, William Albert Wirt, Work-Study-Plan
Library of Congress, William Torrey Harris, Superintendent
Library of Congress, William Torrey Harris, Superintendent, Library of Congress, 1902
"The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of…
Tags: Commissioner, High School, Kindergarten, Missouri, Schools, Superintendent, William Torrey Harris
Ohio House of Representatives, Benjmain W. Arnett
Ohio House of Representatives, Benjmain W. Arnett, Ohio House of Representatives, Circa 1886
A photograph of Benjamin W. Arnett, an African-American minister, elected official, and educator. Though Benjamin W. Arnett was born a free man, he…
Tags: African-American, Benjamin W. Arnett, Civil Rights, Education, Minister, Ohio
Unknown, Barnas Sears
Unknown, Barnas Sears, Brown University, Before 1880
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which,…
Tags: American South, Barnas Sears, Civil War, Peabody Education Fund, Schools, South