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Vintage Reading Moments

Black and white images of children engaged in reading activities, from books to model building. Captures a nostalgic atmosphere of learning and creativity.

Vintage Photograph. Young boy sitting at desk reading bible with head in hand and book up.
Vintage Photograph. Young boy sitting at desk reading bible with head in hand and book up.
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Vintage Photograph. Young boy taking break from reading bible to look at camera and smile.
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Vintage Photograph. Young boy sitting at desk reading bible.
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Boy sitting in bed, reading book
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Vintage Photograph. young boy sitting at desk working on building model ship.
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Vintage Photograph. Young boy sitting at desk thinking while doing homework.
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Vintage Photograph. Young boy sitting at desk reading bible with head in hand and book up.
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Vintage Photograph. Young boy reads from the bible he lays his head on his chin while posing for studio portrait.
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Vintage Photograph. A girl and boy checking a dictionary. Frame 3.
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Vintage Photograph. Girl seated at desk in classroom reading from workbook.
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Boy making a model of a boat
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Vintage Photograph. Young girl wearing dress sitting at desk doing reading the Bible, Frame 3
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Vintage Photograph. Two boys reading bible together.
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Vintage Photograph. Mother and young boy play scrabble.
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Vintage Photograph. Single student discusses his problems with school nurse while she takes notes attentively.
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Vintage Photograph. Young girl wearing dress sitting at desk doing reading the Bible, Frame 1
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Vintage photograph. Teenage boy lying on floor reading book and writing in notebook
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Little Rock, Arkansas:  September, 1958  Photograph shows an African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock schools were closed to avoid integration.
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Teenage girl typing on a typewriter and her brother standing beside her
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Vintage Photograph. A group of young people having a meeting and scheduling events.
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Vintage Photograph. Young student doing homework. Frame 1.
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Vintage photograph. Young girl in dress writing on chalkboard
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Anefo photo collection. Children's broadcast to England. 1945
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Vintage Photograph. A boy building model ship.
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1950s TWO BOYS STUDYING TOGETHER DOING HOMEWORK AT TABLE WITH MAP OF THE UNITED STATES BEHIND THEM
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Models Released: Stephen Grice. Vintage Photograph. Young man at a table working on his studies.
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1950s WOMAN HOUSEWIFE USING AN ELECTRIC APPLIANCE STEAM PRESS TO IRON LINENS AS GIRL DAUGHTER FOLDS AND STACKS THEM ON TABLE
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Allendale, New Jersey:  January 10, 1967 A student using the closed-circuit television system installed by Sylvania at the Northern HIghlands Regional HIgh School here.
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Boy And Girl Doing Homework Together Globe And Books On Table Studio Indoor
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Vintage Photograph. Student doing homework at desk. Frame 1.
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Two boys at table reading the bible.
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Vintage Photograph. Student looking at camera with homework in front of him
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Two boys at table reading bible.
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1950S Two Teen Girls Students One Seated At Desk Holds Up Framed Photo Of College Boyfriend
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Teenage boy typing on a typewriter and his sister standing beside him
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Our School's A Canal Boat Dennis Wilson tries naming an object drawn for him by his teacher on the board. Spelling with deliberation, he writes it down. April 22, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).
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Boy looking at bills and scratching his head
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Vintage Photograph. Little girl drawing with pencil.
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Boys making DIY lamp bracket
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Measuring exercise in laboratory, telesco school, 4 tr.
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1950s MAN OPERATING TELEVISION CAMERA SHOWING WOMAN TEACHER INSTRUCTING READING CLASS FOR FIRST THROUGH THIRD GRADE STUDENTS
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Vintage Photograph. Student at home doing school work.
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Vintage Photograph. Boy working at table to study globe.
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Two children sitting and looking at a globe
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Day Nursery at Tottenham, London, England, 1940 The superintendant of the Park Lane Municipal Day Nursery takes details from a mother about her son, who hopes to start at the nursery in Tottenham, London. Note that the superintendant is wearing a WVS badge indicating her involvement in the Women's Voluntary Service.
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Mother and daughter sewing
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Vintage Photograph. Boy doing homework on floor. Frame 2.
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Teleprinersalen 2 TR, Telesco. Vera Peterson teaches.
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KEPT AFTER SCHOOL (EV001181_H)
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United States:   c. 1950. Children at school practicing playing adult members of the community,
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Anefo photo collection. Link trainer for driving school left student, right instructor. May 4, 1961
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Little girls school dressed in 1953. They echo the 'Dior's New Look' with their full gathered skirts and belted waists, worn with crisp white ankle socks.
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Hobby in the 1950s. A boy is sitting at a table with a plastic model of an American bomb aircraft B29. It's made by the American manufacturer of plastic models Aurora Plastics coporation. The company specialized in plane models and had it's most success with them in the 1950s and 1960s. At this time, building models of planes and cars was a very popular hobby. Sweden 1956 ref 3091
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Anefo photo collection. Assignments Wegen Courses Concern, Paint series. 11 May 1959
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Vintage Photograph. Father helps daughter with homework.
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Teacher teaching students in a classroom, 1957
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Baby sitting in a high chair and looking at a book
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Vintage Photograph. Boy seated at table reading in library.
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Editing newspaper. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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1940s FOCUSED LITTLE BLONDE GIRL USING SCISSORS TO CUT FABRIC TO MAKE DOLL CLOTHES USING A MINIATURE TOY SEWING MACHINE
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Young Boy with War Ration Book Two at Supermarket, as Children are Being Taught the Facts of Point Rationing during War, Washington DC, USA, Alfred T. Palmer for Office of War Information, February 1943
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Teletypersan is untrolled before the pastry. Teacher Inga-Greta Adolfsson.
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Two boys making a model of a rocket
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Vintage Photograph. Man sits at desk with books in front of him he reads from one with a type writer to his side.
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Sewing lesson in a female school, February 1, 1941, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.
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Close-up of two boys building a model
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Vintage Photograph. A student looking through a textbook with pen in mouth.
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1960s BOY DOING REMEDIAL READING FOR AN EYE DEFECT USING A LENTICULAR STEREOSCOPE
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Teenage boy reading a book
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Young Boy Studying, Lewis Hine for National Child Labor Committee, 1924
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Anefo photo collection. Blind institute. January 10, 1946
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1980S Boy Sitting In Front Of Computer Playing Games Boy & Girl Looking On Over His Shoulder
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1960S Six Teen Students Sit Around Conference Table
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Vintage Photograph. Boy of Elementary School age opening front door at entrance to school for classmate.
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Practice lesson Ward-Leonard arrangement at the Royal Institute for the Marine. Is part of the AVDKM 53193 to 53229 object series.
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Vintage photograph. young girl in dress pointing at globe
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Anefo photo collection. Minister Deetman national education exhibition Utrecht. Minister Deetman classroom. February 28, 1989. Utrecht (Prov), Utrecht (city)
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Village School Teaches By Television -- A Lesson by television on progress at the Hurst House School, Staplehurst.Village children from 5 to 14 in one of the quietest parts of the Weald of Kent are given lessons by television. This is the Hurst School, Staplehurst, and the pupils are almost all farmers children. Citizenship and general knowledge are taught them through the study of news reels and the presentation of historic events sugh as the departure of the King and Queen for Canada. June 16, 1939.
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Vintage Photograph. Exploring the library card catalog: a young boy's journey to knowledge.
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1960S Teen Students At Conference Table
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1960S Teacher And Student Reviewing Notes In Science Classroom
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Vintage photograph. young boy sitting at desk looking at painting of George Washington.
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Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading Air Raid Instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's Post Office and General Store, West Danville, Vermont, USA, Fritz Henle, U.S. Office of War Information, July 1942
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1960S Baby Wearing Glasses Looking For A Word In Big Dictionary
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1960s BOY SELLING NEWSPAPERS WEARING BALL CAP BLUE JACKET
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Teacher dog in classroom
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Anefo photo collection. Children get milk at school. February 19, 1946
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Vintage Photograph. Two elementary school girls shown with books and engaged in conversation on the steps of school.
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Women using and early personal computer made by the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard Massachusetts in 1982. The computer worked on programs and information from large 5 1/4 inch floppy discs foreground .
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Crown Prince Carl Gustaf of Sweden, who had his ninth birthday this week, is her seen scoring a goal on the hockey-game table in his nursery. He is the son of Princess Sibylla and the late Prince Gustaf Adolf. April 26, 1955. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)
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Rome, Italy may 1964: Vintage photo of a smiling schoolgirl drawing with colored pencils at her desk in a 1970s classroom decorated with plants and flowers
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1960S Baby At Adding Machine
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1950S Two Teenage Students Boy And Girl Walking Away From School Doors Carrying Books
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