Historical Education Scenes

Antique engravings depicting various educational settings, from cookery schools to sewing classes, showcasing historical learning environments.

A German merchant and his secretary at their books

Drawing by Percy Spence of telephone girls answering calls at the new national telephone exchange at Kensington, London in 1902. Date: January 11th 1902

THE 'ONE TUN'' RAGGED SCHOOLS, WESTMINSTER; TEA MEETING FOR THE MOTHERS OF THE CHILDREN

Five-year-old Mozart creating his first composition, historical engraving, about 1888

This late 19the-century illustration shows boys in New York City applying to the superintendent at the Water Street Mission for a night's lodging. In 1872 businessman Frederick Hatch bought the property in Lower Manhattan that became the Water Street Mission. He had met Jerry McAuley and put him in charge of this new venture - America's first Rescue Mission.

An engraving depicting a child learning to write. Illustrated by George John Pinwell (1842-1875) a British illustrator and watercolourist. Dated 19th century

Illustration depicting The Reporters' room at the House of Commons. Dated 19th century

An engraving depicting James Dewar (1842-1923) giving a Christmas lecture for children at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Dated 19th century

Victorian image of two girls playing pastry chefs

A naval physician in uniform studying books at a large table. Coloured lithograph, 1829.

1700s 1721 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AGE 15 IN HIS BROTHERS PRINTING OFFICE IN BOSTON MA USA

Engraving depicting boys experimenting with an electrical machine. A boy stands on an insulated stool and touches the conductor, his friend draws a spark from him.

Engraving depicting a governess and her pupil. The governess is using a writing slope beside which is a glass inkwell. Illustrated by Mary Ellen Edwards.

Illustration depicting a compositor making up a line of type. In his left hand is the composing stick, and in this he places letters taken from the upper case for capitals and from the lower case for capitals and from the lower case for small letters. Dated 19th century

Girl and new Governess, Du Maurier, 1874, Britain, practice; holiday; piano; teaching; teacher; interior; education; at home; learning; culture; literacy; information; preparation; knowledge; reading;

School break, the teacher observes hidden how the class is fighting, 1880, Historic, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date not known

Storey, George Adolphus, Reproduction of a painting of a girl writing a letter by George Adolphus Storey, photomechanical print, reproduction, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, height 192 mm, width 238 mm, maker, producer, 1874 - 1879, paper, papier, Woodburytypie, English, 1834 - 1919-07-29

PREPARING FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, THE INTERRUPTED LESSON, ENGRAVING 1876

Illustration depicting a young girl writing a letter at her desk. Illustrated by Mary Ellen Edwards (1838-1934) an English artist. Dated 19th century

Engraving depicting a boy learning to read in Sunday School, Stockport.

A French illustration depicting swimming lessons. Dated 1840

Leipzig Students in 1816, Leipzig, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, Europe

Pratt's Astral Oil , Children, Food, Oils & fats, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Sarah Martin (1791-1843) English prison visitor reading to prisoners.

ILUSTRACION ESPANOLA Y AMERICANA - IMPRENTA S XIX. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Classroom During Geography Lessons 19th C. Karl Konrad Julius Hertel (1837-1895 German) Oil on canvas Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany

Christmas. Children tracing Santa Claus's route from the North Pole. Engraving 1885 by Thomas Nast.

An engraving depicting a young man reading by the light of an oil lamp. Dated 19th century

Ecole des Ponts-et-Chaussees, Paris, 1894. Artist: Unknown

Female academic writing a paper in the 1950s as imagined in the 1880s. From 'La vie electrique', Paris, c1880, by A Robida.

Ragged Schools: Brook Street Ragged and Industrial School, Hampstead Road, London. The classroom with a master at centre back and mistress middle left. From The Illustrated London News, London,17 December 1853.

Boy's class at an American Sunday School. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving, 1890

Students of a tarantchie school in Yining, northwestern part of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China, Central Asia. From Orenburg to Samarkand 1876-1878 by Madame Marie Ujfalvy-Bourdon, Le Tour du Monde 1879

Two young children sit at a table, one is studying, the other watching the tutor who is reading his paper. Wood engraving by F. Tegelmayer after G. Knorr.

THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOTT

Under Grandfathers Supervision, Girl Practising Writing on a Slate, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

1700s INTERIOR OF 18TH CENTURY COLONIAL AMERICAN ONE ROOM SCHOOL WITH MALE TEACHER AND STUDENTS BY LARGE FIREPLACE

Prangs aids for object teaching--Tailor c1874. People working in tailor shop.

The Maze, physical training in Board Schools, illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XXIV, no 610, August 6, 1881. Digitally colorized image.

Gutenberg at his Printing Press Illustration

Playing School. Harry Brooker (1848-1940). Oil on canvas. Dated 1893. 70.8 x 91.5cm

Young Abraham Lincoln Studying in Front of Fireplace Illustration

A gentleman bibliophile receives his latest books, delivered to him by a servant, the books piled high on a wheelbarrow. Date: circa 1845

Engraving showing an art exhibition in St. Jude's School House, Commercial Street, East London, 1884. Date: 22 November 1884

Illustration depicting a young woman writing a letter whilst sitting at her desk, using a writing slope. Dated 19th century

THE LABOUR TEST: NEEDLEWORK, 1886

Ludwig van Beethoven (died 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music

Activity for girls - Reading and writing. Print 1884.

Orphan Home and School Lottery. 1867

The Guitar Lesson. Engraving by A. Bellenger. Painting by Frederick Leighton (1830-1896). Almanac of the Illustration, 1882.

The village school, by Soma O. Petrich, 1860, Hungary 19th century.

Illustration depicts a Jewish deaf child learning to speak at the Notting Hill, Deaf and Dumb home for Jewish Children, London. Dated 19th Century

Engraving showing young male immigrants hard at work making shoes; stitching, sewing and hammering at a work table, London, 1904. This engraving was part of an article in the Illustrated London News entitled 'The Alien in England: Scenes of the Foreign Invasion of the East End of London'. Date: 1904

Scholastic Studies in the Beginnings of the Reformation, Middle Ages, 1500, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Estey Piano Co., manufacturers, New York. The first music lesson.. Estey Piano Co., manufacturers, New York. The first music lesson.

This 1888 illustration shows children going to school in New York in 1700.

Young musicians at school, the teacher looks at the scene skeptically, 1891, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century model, exact date of presentation unknown, historical, children playing violin in the classroom while the teacher observes them

Boy's class at an American Sunday School. The Sunday School movement was started by Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England in 1780. Wood engraving, 1890

THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION, 1876: OUTSIDE THE EXHIBITION: THE "LIGHTNING CALCULATOR", US, U.S., USA, U.S.A., UNITED STATES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AMERICA

Class in economy. Teacher -- 'Now, young ladies, you see how successful I have been with the Diamond Dyes. In no other way can you so easily economize as by re-coloring faded or dingy articles by their use. , Women, Dyeing, 19th Century American Trade Cards

An engraving depicting a lecture at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. Dated 19th century

A caricature depicting an adult African Americans in a classroom with the elderly female teacher disciplining a man seated in the front row;a young girl stands on the left, in the foreground. Dated 1897

Album with fonts, Pieter Wilhelmus van de Weijer, 1855 Prentalbum with eight alphabets in different fonts. On the cover a calligraph, a painter, a sculptor and a lithographer. Numbered in the bottom right: 1st episode. paper letters, alphabet, script. artist at work, in his workshop (+ graphic arts). stone-cutter, stone-sawyer. painter at work, in his studio. calligraphy

Barber shop with monkeys, ca. 1720, 1720 - 1799 drawing Barber shop with monkeys, a cat who is shaved and a boy who opens the door for a patient brought in. Northern Netherlands parchment (animal material) animals acting as human beings. monkeys, apes. barber; surgeon

Engraving depicting boys experimenting with an electrical machine. A boy stands on an insulated stool and touches the conductor, his friend draws a spark from him.

IMPRENTA DEL SIGLO XIX. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Bench of punished in a school. Engraving, 1884.

Illustration of an English, Village School (Dame school), showing the teacher spinning while supervising the children as they learn to read and sew. Two little girls play with a doll. On the spinning wheel stand is a bunch of birch twigs ready to hit the children when they were naughty or inattentive.

The Day Nursery by Albert Anker, 1831-1910 Swiss, oil on canvas, Switzerland, Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection, 1890

An engraving depicting a woman teaching children their alphabet. Dated 19th century

A visit to the boarding school, by William Ward.

Impressio Librorum, Book Printing, 16th century engraving by Theodoor Galle after a drawing by Johannes Stradanus, c. 1550

FREE EDUCATION

China. School of chinese writing. 19th century engraving. Colored.

Cutting and Sharing, Victorian Children's Literature - Kate Greenaway

Satirical representation of a school scene, 1557, woodcut, England

Cartoon depicting Mr Punch appealing to John Bull, who is dressed as a policeman, asking him to clear the arguing representatives from the school door so that children could get on with their education. Foster's Elementary Education Bill passed February 1870 and received royal assent on 9 August. This allowed religious instruction with parents' consent, and reading of the Bible, but no catechisms or sectarian formularies. Illustrated by John Tenniel (1820-1914) an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist. Dated 19th century

The Lesson. George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924). Pencil and watercolour. Signed and dated 1892. 36.8 x 50.2cm.

Cartoon depicting a board school. A boy asks for food before the lesson so that he can concentrate on learning. Illustrated by John Tenniel.

Henry Ward Beecher - Theodore Tilton Trial, USA c.1875 Artist Unknown Engraving Culver Pictures Inc.

Pianoles.Two girls behind a piano get lessons from a music teacher.

Spencerian steel pens , Boys, Pens, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Interior of Mrs. A. B Marshall's crowded class room during the progress of an entire dinner lesson in Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. Date: May 1887

The Students of Philippe Le Bas, vintage engraving. The Students of Philippe Le Bas, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1870. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679229

The maritime education in English. Bath aboard a boat school, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, (1880-81).

Old-time Tuition at Dulwich College. Date/Period: Before 1906. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil. Height: 841 mm (33.11 in); Width: 1,073 mm (42.24 in). Author: Walter Charles Horsley.

French schoolboys illustrate how the human body can act as an electrical conductor, with the aid of an 'insulating stool', a small stool with glass legs. Date: circa 1850

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen - digital file from original print | Library of Congress

Cartoon commenting on board schools. The professional classes afraid that universal publicly funded education would create too many 'educated' people, and would put them out of work. Illustrated by Harry Furniss.

Engraving showing poor children playing in the gymnasium and skittle alley of what was a forerunner of a 'youth club', Islington, London, 1887. Date: 22 October 1887

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 12 January 1746, 17 February 1827, a Swiss pedagogue, among the orphans of Midwalden, Switzerland, Illustration from 1896, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, Europe

Woman using typewriter by American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890). Forerunner of 20th century machine, keys had piano action and the carriage moved one space to left for each character struck and keyboard had Qwerty layout. Sholes sold out to Remington in 1874. From 'Scientific American' (New York 1872). Wood engraving.

Interior of a 16th century printing house by Jost Amman From a sixteenth century engraving

Women in quiet study. Women in quiet study

'Sholes' Type Writer', 1872. Artist: Unknown

Engraving depicting an evening lecture on physiology and hygiene being given to members of the young men's Christian Association. Dated 19th Century

Cartoon depicting a governess teaching a child using a slate.

Billiards Illustrated - 'Trying for the pocket' - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentleman's trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

Christmas. Children tracing Santa Claus's route from the North Pole. Engraving 1885 by Thomas Nast. Later colouration.

School Begins - Uncle Sam as a teacher - Political Cartoon, 1899

Illustration depicting Manockjee Cursetjee (1808-1887), addressing the Congress on education in India at the Social Science Congress in Sheffield. Dated 19th Century

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