Vintage Children's Reading

Illustrations of children engaging with books, showcasing vintage styles and early 20th-century themes in educational settings.

Children coming out of school, looking forward to playtime. Date: first published 1879

Niños jugando a los piratas. Museum: FREE LIBRARY / PHILADELPH / ES. UNIDOS. Author: KATE GREENAWAY.

Children looking at the Big and Little Dipper constellations from a balcony, children's illustration, drawing.

Children looking at the Big and Little Dipper constellations from a balcony, children's illustration, drawing.

Poster to advertise literacy 'books are a best friend'; Lithuania 1962

Children at Play Guessing the Treasures, 1868, Woodcuts, Color; bound in booklet with five others (109271-109276), Paper / Sheet 19 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (50 x 35 cm)

Thank You, Mother, China

Illustration depicting a young boy reading his book. Dated 20th century

French satirical illustration, 1909, showing, child put into a correctional facility

Cartoon - Read Any Good Books Lately . John Collins (1917-2007)

The Twelve Days of Christmas, illustrated by Leslie Wood Date: 01/12/1958

Jounalism Major, Skeletons - Academia

School class, Carel Adolph Lion Cachet, 1874 - 1945 drawing paper. chalk elementary school; class, form

Advertising card for the Hilversumsche Vrije Academy, Reinier Willem Petrus de Vries (1874-1953), 1884 - 1952 print A woman is sitting with a palette in her hand and painting her dress behind a donkey with a apron. The text states the lessons and tuition fees of the Free Academy. paper painter at work, in his studio

A studious looking little girl with spectacles balanced on her nose, sits among dictionaries as she works on countless crosswords. Published at a time when crosswords were all the rage, the little girl's dress is even crossword-themed. Date: 1925

Kafka on Books, Quotes

Our teacher knows a pile because he uses Pettits Pile Remedy. Our teacher knows a pile because he uses Pettits Pile Remedy

A Apple Pie. Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901. Illustrations. 1910 - 1919. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Children playing, Ring-around-a-rosy, Children , Clothing and dress , 1880-1889

Cartoon - Studying the Hieroglyphics. John Collins (1917-2007)

Photo collection Government information service. Education, schools, children. undated

Studies of a reading and a drawing girl. .

Playing school , Children's art, Play Recreation, Children

Adjustable school desk, school bench with seat, ca. 1885, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century model.

Levi Warren Junior High School fresco , History, Education. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

A hint to parents! Shoe bills reduced one half. A. S. T. Co., black tips will do it.. A hint to parents! Shoe bills reduced one half. A. S. T. Co., black tips will do it.

Illustration depicting a man in a record library checking something out. Dated 19th century

School is Decorated for Children's Day, China

Cobbler, Children's Literature

September Calendar Postcard with Schoolgirl. 1906, September Calendar Postcard with Schoolgirl

Learning How to Plant, China

Visitors' day By John S Pughe, 1870-1909, artist. Published 1905. Illustration shows a rowdy classroom scene at the 'Pan-American School' where Uncle Sam is the teacher admonishing Cipriano Castro, holding a slingshot, for a prank;four other adults are present, 'Holland, France, England, and Germany';three native children are sitting at desks, one is shooting a spitball that hits 'Holland' in the face.

B for the Book that was Given to me, The Alphabet

A picture of an accountant tied to his accounting books with images of his own expenses at the races swirling around him. Date: 27th September 1927

Playing school , Children's art, Play Recreation, Children

Harper's June , Rocking chairs, Reading, Periodicals

Cartoon - A Magic Lantern Lesson Rostap (1866-1949)

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.

Woman looks at the back of a book. A standing woman with a hat on her head looks at the back of a book that she stuck with two hands. There is a man with a zeis on the back of the fond list.

The Acme Lawn Mower. "This is our new lawn mower. Isn't it handsome And it runs so easy that I can mow our lawn as well as papa.. The Acme Lawn Mower. "This is our new lawn mower. Isn't it handsome And it runs so easy that I can mow our lawn as well as papa.

Poster dedicated to education popularization in Soviet Russia 1922

Our artist studying up a comical sketch.. Our artist studying up a comical sketch.

Posex for the Youth Library of the Royal Association "Indisch Institute" in Amsterdam, monogrammist WB, 1946 - 1951 print. poster A boy and a girl hold a book together. In the foreground are books that relate to Indonesia. In the background a ship in a bay for a volcano. paper ships (in general). book. gulf, bay

Poster for the Youth Library of the Royal Association Indian Institute in Amsterdam. A boy and a girl hold a book together. There are books that relate to Indonesia in the foreground. In the background a ship in a bay for a volcano.

Midwife 1 (re) class

'PASSIONATE FEMALE LITERARY TYPES' Satiric comment on the 'New School', the older, educated woman here portrayed as a masculine spinster. Date: 1894

Boy for the display of a bookstore, 1915 print. binding linen (material). cardboard book-shop, bookseller. children's books. shop-window, show-window

Girl Guides of the world united during wartime - 1941 - 'Thinking Day' - sent from the 10th Dudley Troupe Date: 1941

Poster for Boon's illustrated warehouse. A reading woman with a copy of Boon's illustrated warehouse in her left hand where she is on the front. In the background an hourglass with wings and the text 'The time flies around'.

A Good Book Walter Firle (1859-1929 German) Oil on board

Soviet Education poster by : Alexander Nikolayevich Zelenskiy, (1882ó1942). 'In order to have more, it is necessary to produce more. In order to produce more, it is necessary to know more.' 1920

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.

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.

Propaganda illustration showing soviet girls ready to take their part as civilian volunteers in any Cold War conflict.

Edward Penfield, Graduate in Cap and Gown, June Harper's, 1890-1895, zincograph on paper.

At the Toy Store, China

Children learning calIIgraphy. Month of February. The basics of calIIgraphy /Nigatsu, Tenarai hajime, from the a series presenting children's activities during the twelve months

Lippincott's April , Reading, Periodicals

Large Eiffel tower game / dedicated to the Dutch youth. Arranged board game with laps of 1 to 63, walking across the Eiffel tower. Goose plate-like advertising game, following the world exhibition in Paris in 1889, for blooker's cocoa. On the left and right two columns with a girls on it. The left girl is wearing the French flag, the right girl is wearing the American flag. In the background right the liberty image. Game rules in letterpress in the middle of the leaf.

Promotion for Town of Mooseheart. ca. 1945, Mooseheart, Illinois, USA, MOOSEHEART, THE CITY OF CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL THAT TRAINS FOR LIFE is owned and maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose at Mooseheart, Illinois, forty miles due west of Chicago, on Highway 31. Here dependent children of deceased members of the Fraternity from the United States and Canada, are trained for life in a model city of homes, schools, churches, shops, stores, offices, playgrounds. The Child City covers over two square

P - was a Policeman, of bad boys the dread. Date: 1867

Children weaving rug on barcode loom

Clemens' silent teacher, dissected map of the United States and of each state in counties , Jigsaw puzzles, United States, Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

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.

Wow! I was putting toilet water on my hair when the seat fell on my head!. Wow! I was putting toilet water on my hair when the seat fell on my head!

Weather report - very cloudy, with increasing showers tonight! , Children, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Color illustration by Joseph Lindon Smith showing the handbook of the New Public Library in Boston, created around 1900, depicting library architecture and interior features.

Band design for the series: The ideal library of publishing company L.J. Veen, Johan Braakensiek, in or Before 1914 drawing A man in a long jacket pushes a curtain aside and shows two boys the bookcase that lies behind it. On the breeze a boy who is reading on a staircase. paper. India ink (ink). watercolor (paint). pencil pen / brush bookshelves. reading

Children reading. Date/Period: 1916. Oil painting. Oil on canvas. Author: PEKKA HALONEN.

Portada del libro escolar Aritmética para los niños. Editorial Saturnino Callejo, Madrid, 1915.

Booking boxes book boxes copyright: xzoonar.com/martinaxbergx 7881889

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.

Children with picture books. A boy shows a swamped book to a girl on a chair and a girl with a stack of books under her arm. In the foreground a reading boy, in the background four children with books in hand.

Belgium, Brussels, antique store, Becassine fait du scoutisme book

Poster, 'She helps her Boy to Victory', 1918, United Kingdom, by Clarke & Sherwell, Ltd., Ministry of Food (Food Controller), League of National Safety. Gift of Department of Defence, 1919.

Make friends with books November 13-19 1949, book week. - digital file from original item | Library of Congress

A question stamp depicting a barefoot boy and text: income for footwear for children of folk schools; Trzebiński, Jan Kanty (Radom; Litographic Plant); around 1915 1920 (1914-00-00-1939-00-00);

K is for Kindness, Alphabet Poetry

Color artwork by Maximilian Liebenwein depicting a German school club, showing students, uniforms, and educational activities, 1908.

Enough of these trips can knock you out! , Privies, Boys, Buttocks, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Think hard - ten minutes to catch our bus and you can't remember where you buried papa! , Beaches, Boys, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

School Day Begins, Children's Literature

Boston park guide , Parks, Women, Girls, Umbrellas. Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940). Prints

Little Ann and Other Poems by Ann Taylor, illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Date: 1883

A colored illustration by Josef Rudolf Witzel from 1896 depicting a Munich illustrated weekly targeting youth, showing text and decorative layout elements.

Handbook of the new public library in Boston , Children, Books

'Forward bend! The Nursery school shows off its freedom from clothes-pepression'. Free to move and improve. . . comfortable in their pretty clothes, no matter what they do. . . the children's bodies ( and minds) develop healthily, happily, normally. Such a lot of thanks to 'Viyella'! Which does not shrink when washed, never irritates the skin, and which keeps children always warm enough but never too warm. Date: 1936

Three Chums: Back at School, Victorian Children's Literature - Three Chums

N, O, P, Q Illustrated Letters, The Alphabet

Cartoon - In for a Lesson . John Collins (1917-2007)

Redding, California: June 2. 1925 A window display by George Hauber at the McCormick-Saeltzer department store encouraging parents on Childrens Day to "Foster the spirit of play with toys".

Young Man's Opportunity for Work, Play, Study, and Health, WPA

Poster as part of an HIV awareness campaign, HIV prevention, Garoua, Cameroon, Africa

Lippincott's series of select novels. The spell of Ursula, by Mrs. Rowlands. , Books, Cats, Periodicals

A modern college scull: graduating with all the honors, 1876

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.

Help Wanted. Boys - are you interested in a job Poster for Illinois branch of the National Youth Administration promoting educational opportunities for young men seeking training for employment. Color silkscreen, 1936

Indoor activities at Camp Atterbury, Indiana -- writing home, shining up, mess, playing checkers , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Boston park guide , Girls, Walking, Parks, Books

A question of color by F. C. Philips , Cupids, Money, Scales, Books

Lippincott's series of select novels. The spell of Ursula, by Mrs. Rowlands. , Books, Cats, Periodicals

College days cigars.. text. Posters. 1895 - 1917. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Posters, American

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