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. Teenagers walking on school campus talking with books.
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Word "Form" Pupils hand is held teachers chin to feel vibration of the "OR". September 7, 1940. (Photo by Steven Henty).
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Young Boy, Boyd Jones, doing his Homework on Wood Floor, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, November 1941
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Aid From America- Lend-lease Food, London, England, 1941 A group of smiling children sit at a table and eat cheese imported from America as part of the Lend-Lease scheme in the playground of a severely bomb-damaged school. The school is now being used as a feeding centre. Piles of salvaged wood can be seen just behind the children. This photograph was probably taken in late August or early September 1941.
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1960S College Students Meeting Council
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The city of Hanover and the state of Lower Saxony in the 1950s and 1960s. Preschool child, Germany, Europe
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Woman talking to teacher
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Camera club , Camera clubs, Photographic studios. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Anefo photo collection. Winter trade fair for suitcases and leather goods in Jaarbeurs Utrecht; School bag with smurfje. January 9, 1978. Utrecht
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Palos Verdes, California: c. 1927 A young boy studies archeology with the use of a fossilized prehistoric vertebrae found in the nearby hills.
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Teenage boy and his sister looking at a globe
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Peter Williss, age 3 ¾, learns difference in weight with the aid of three boxes containing pieces of wood. The pieces in the first box are 5 grammes heavier than those in the second and those in the third box being ton grammes heavier than those in the first box.Heaviest blocks are dark coloured, medium weights are lighter and the lightest in weight are lightest in colour. Blindfold Peter sorts them into piles and then lifts the cloth to check his results. At Netherton Nursery School, London. December 20, 1949. (Photo by Fox Photos).
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CHEATING (EV001173_H)
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Couple, blackboard, chalk, writing Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, 1940s, USA, North America
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Vintage Photograph. Teenage boy and girl high school students at entrance to high school.
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Vintage Photograph. Young women pose in studio portrait holding books looking at each other.
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Rear view of a schoolboy climbing up a staircase to school
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A young girl reading.
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baby with glasses and abacus - black and white
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Vintage Photograph. Girl with school books walking on campus.
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Vintage Photograph. Teenage couple going over school books while seated on grounds in front of school.
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John Logie Baird the Scottish scientist, engineer, innovator and inventor of the world's first television in the 1920s
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1950s 1960s TEENAGE BOY STUDENT STUDYING AT DESK WITH GLOBE OPEN TEXTBOOKS COLLEGE AGE
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Primary school. 1962.
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Vintage Photograph. Woman studies holy bible while wearing glasses.
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Vintage photograph. Young smiling boy in nice coat holding school books
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1960S 6 Students Around Conference Table Student Government Study Group Talking Discussion Council
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Historic photograph: first day at school, girl wearing school uniform holding school cone, ca.1902
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Girl putting Check on Checkboard to indicate she is in Swimming, National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, USA, Arthur S. Siegel, U.S. Farm Security Administration, August 1942
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New York, New York: November 30, 1927 An instructor leads a class of young women in exercises at a New York health institute.
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Reading a Comic Book
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The organized college professor
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bambini, slittinoe sci, 1949
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