Classic Classroom Scenes

Engravings depicting 17th and 18th-century classrooms and teaching methods, illustrating educational settings of the past.

Old-Time School In Pennsylvania 1881 Pyle, Howard(1853-1911 American) Lithograph Private Collection
Old-Time School In Pennsylvania 1881 Pyle, Howard(1853-1911 American) Lithograph Private Collection
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ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.
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A teacher teaches students the ABC, woodcut from Geiler von Keisersberg, ein heylsame lere und predig, 1490, Germany, Europe
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German and Belgian school. Civitates Orbis Terrarum: shepherdess making wool balls. Madrid, National Library. Author: GEORG BRAUN 1541-1622 / FRANS HOGENBERG. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Document of indenture: Servant: Gillings, John. Master: Edmunds, Ebenezer. Town of Master: Dudley , Indentured servants, Child labor
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Trochu making his instruction
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Image of reading children in the children's reading room of the public reading room and library (Voetiusstraat 2) in Utrecht, with a librarian in the middle.
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Tax collector in the Middle Ages, in 1540, Two officials check the books and count the money, Painting by Reymerswaele, Holland, Historic, Digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Gymnasia and play ground of the children of the infant school, gymnastic; athletics; gym class; seesaw; own; garden; tree; teacher; schoolteacher; excitment; sport; gathering; class; schoolclass; climbing; activity; skill; balance; playing; 19th century
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Letters of Illustrious Women Penelope 15th-16th Centuries, Vellum on Card Manuscript Illumination The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
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Mohammedan School at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. India. Old engraving illustration from El Mundo en la Mano 1878
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The Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, Croydon, 1865. '...the constitution of the school was based on the broadest principles of Christian benevolence, its benefits being limited to no sect or denomination, but open to all creeds...Above 150 children had been already received into the schools'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
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page old copy-book with text. vector
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The Seven Liberal Arts. Rhetoric. Miniature of the thirteenth century where a teacher is teaching a class. Chateau de Chantilly. France.
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Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Watering a marjoram plant. Miniature. Fol. 33v.
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Change of address of Boekhandel A. Rouquette in Paris, 1902 print Interior of a nineteenth-century bookstore. In front of the counter, behind which a bookseller stands, a sitting woman browses through a folder with prints, a lorgnet in her hand. Next to them is a man on a library sheet for a bookcase. cardboard book-shop, bookseller. print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph. bookshelves
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Tobacco, Nicotiana tobacum. Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835).
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Go (Japanese), known as weiqi in Chinese and baduk in Korean, is an ancient board game for two players that is noted for being rich in strategy despite its relatively simple rules.
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Engraving depicting boys participating in physical education at Truant School, London.
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Title Page of Zacchia's Protomed Romani Quaestionvm medico-legalivm Tomvs Posterior, Qvo Continnentvr Liber
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Gradual Illumination - Christ Manuscript Illumination Newberry Library, Chicago
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Illustration on the South Sea company, a collection of Dutch satires on the schemes in question
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illustration showing a Roman Time Caller, who hourly declared the time of day based on the shadow cast by an obelisk. 1911
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Woman Writing, manuscript, France, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale
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Reward of Merit , Schools. Messenger Collection
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Gradual - Nativity Artist Unknown Manuscript Illumination Newberry Library, Chicago
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Letters of Illustrious Women Paris Manuscript Illumination Vellum on Card The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
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Hildesheim, Franz Publisher: Bookstore Bey The Real = School Sport: Berlin
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Picture series from prehistoric times in Flanders, Charlemagne, visiting schools in the year 800, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from c. 1900, in the public domain, exact date unknown
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Swiss Mathematician Developer of Integral Calculus Stock Montage, Inc.