Browse Items (22 total)

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

Library of Congress, Mary Emma Woolley, First Female Student to Attend Brown University, Library of Congress, c. 1903

Mary Emma Woolley in her graduating gap and gown, as first female student to attend Brown University and would later become the 11th President of…

Tags: Domestic Work System, Education, Mary Emma Woolley, Mount Holyoke, Women

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

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

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

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

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

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

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