Browse Items (22 total)

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

Bain News Service, Albany State Education Building, Library of Congress, 1910

Photo shows the New York State Department of Education Building in Albany, which was dedicated on October 17, 1912. Architect of the building was…

Tags: Albany, Albany State Education Building, Architecture, NY, Public Architecture

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

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

Warren's (Firm), Amos Bronson Alcott, Teacher, New York Public Library, Unknown

A photograph of Amos Bronson Alcott, a teacher whose controversial methods would better improve the school system. When Alcott decided the life of a…

Tags: Amos Bronson Alcott, Public Education, School System, Teaching, Temple School

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

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

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

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

Cowan's Auctions, Francis Wayland daguerreotype, Cowan's Auctions, Unknown

A black and white photograph of Francis Wayland, an American educator and president of Brown University. Francis Wayland had always advocated for…

Tags: Education, Francis Wayland, Library, Public Libraries, Slavery