Browse Items (22 total)
- Collection: Public Education (E-2)
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
Library of Congress, Get Ahead! Adult Education Classes
Library of Congress, Get Ahead! Adult Education Classes, Library of Congress, Between 1936 and 1941
Poster encouraging adults to attend adult education classes
Federal Art Project, sponsor. By the People, For the People
Tags: Adult Education, Adults, Federal Art Project, Posters, Public Education
Memoria Press, Boston Latin School
Memoria Press, Boston Latin School, Memoria Press, 1800s
A historic sketch of what the Boston Latin School first looked like, before years of moving and renovation changed it to what it is today. The Boston…
Tags: 17th Century, Boston Latin School, Colonies, Public Education, Schools, United States
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
Paul Reverse Sr., A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge New England
Paul Reverse Sr., A Westerly View of the Colleges in Cambridge New England, Yale University Art Gallery, 1767
An engraving of Harvard College.
Harvard University was the first college in the U.S., and was also the first to be used as a corporation. It was…
Tags: Civil War, Colleges, Harvard, Harvard University, New England, Schools
The Library of Congress, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, First Female Superintendent
The Library of Congress, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, First Female Superintendent, The Library of Congress, 1910
I believe in it ..[equal suffrage for women]. I have not been an active suffragist because I have kept so busily to my own line, but I realize that,…
Tags: Chicago, Ella Flagg Young, Female Superintended, Illinois, National Education Association, Women, Women's Suffrage
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
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
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
Walter Albertin, Albert Shanker, President of U.F.T.
Walter Albertin, Albert Shanker, President of U.F.T., Library of Congress, 1965
Albert Shanker, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, is holding the report that would stop the threat of striking teachers. When Albert…
Tags: Albert Shanker, Labor, Public Education, Strikes, Teaching, UFT, Unions