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Mid-century style classroom full of students looking ahead to teacher and another student standing at chalkboard.
Lillian C. Schmitt Elem. School, Harry Weese. Photo by Balthazar Korab, 1957. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.13033

Finding Pictures: Back to School

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Join Reference Specialist Ryan Brubacher online on Wednesday, July 16 at 3:00pm EDT as she explores school-related images from the collections. Showing a variety of perspectives and spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the images in the presentation will feature buildings and classrooms, sports and recess activities, naptime, students engaged in artistic and scientific learning, and more.

Enjoy the images in this post, which provide a sneak peek at the kinds of images you’ll see in the live webinar. If you miss the event, you’ll be able to watch the recording at a later point. We hope you take this opportunity to go back to school with us!

Blue-toned photograph (cyanotype) shows classroom full of children learning how to sew.
African American schoolgirls in classroom, learning to sew. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.16319
Girls dressed in late-19th century clothing play basketball in a gym in this blue-tinted (cyanotype) photograph.
Female students playing basketball, Western High School, Washington, D.C. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.31958
Five young children are playing in this photograph. Some are standing and pouring gravel into a wagon while a smaller child at bottom right plays with a small wagon attached to a stuffed horse.
Four young children loading rocks into a wagon while a smaller child sits on the ground playing with his toy ponycart. Photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals, circa 1915. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.11782
Fresh air class–Public School #51–Manhattan, N.Y. City–Rest hour. Photo from the Goldsberry collection of open-air school photographs, 1911. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c20419
Photograph shows small wooden schoolhouse in center of the image, presumably in a rural area given the surrounding field, tree and farmhouse-style structure next to it.
Schoolhouse in field, Michigan. Photo by Balthazar Korab Studios, Ltd., 1976. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppem.00736

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  1. Mohamed Wishahi says:

    Great pictures.

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