Browse Items (9 total)

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

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, 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

Kunnap, V., For high progress in education!, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Smirnovski, S.

Little Yegorka just ran through the text,
He did not learn his lesson—so ""D"" was the next.
The director of studies did…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Corruption, Education, Grades, Satire, Schools

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

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

National Archives, Record of Rights - Children Freed By the Union Army 1863, National Archives, 1863

The picture of propriety, two children emancipated by the Union Army in 1863 stare somberly from this cartes-de-visite—an inexpensively reproduced…

Tags: African-Americans, Civil War, Isaac and Rosa, National Archives, Native Americans, Schools, Union Army

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

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