Education

[Title page for The complete gentleman, by Henry Peacham, with elabora...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The complete gentleman / Henry Peacham. London : Francis Constable, 1622, title page. Reference copy in LOT 7007.

Gyokkashi eimo

Print shows Gyokkashi Eimo, a young girl with a talent for calligraphy, and a young woman, her writing instructor, sitting next to a low table; fans and brushes hang in the background, more fans lie on the floo... More

Pro forma, or an examination in the public schools at Ox-d for a degre...

Print shows three Oxford(?) students seated in the center with perplexed expressions on their faces, from right and left professors address them; in the foreground, a dog urinates on a text open to Aristotle. T... More

[Title page engraved vignette: allegory of America resting her shield ...

Engraving by Thackara & Vallance - C.W. Peale, del't. Illus. in: Title page of The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine for 1790. vol. V. Philadelphia. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr). This record contains unve... More

Lexington lottery, second class. Authorized by law of the state of Vir...

4 tickets. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 181, Folder 25.

The complete Lancasterian system of education. The citizens and inhabi...

Das allegrösste Bilder ABC. N bei Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin

Print shows the letter "N" formed by a man, an acrobat, leaning back and supporting himself with two swords, with his feet resting on a small ball and balancing on his toes a sword with a plate on top, with exa... More

U.S. Reports: Dandridge vs. Washington's Executors, 27 U.S. (2 Pet.) 3...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 27; Peters Volume 2; January Term, 1829; John Dandridge, Appellant vs. Martha Washington's Executors, Appellees

Les quatre éléments. Louis était un enfant léger qui n'apportait aucum...

French comic strip shows a young boy, "Louis," who decides to apply himself at school after unfortunate experiences with the four elements. Louis learns about fire by getting burned while working for a baker; a... More

Drawing of the Alton education lottery for the promotion of education....

Lotteries.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 15, Folder 4.

A lecture on the importance of education. [Alton 1838].

Lancasterian institute. Having succeeded, by a series of long-continue...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 153, Folder 39a.

School house, Tappan / painted by Robert W. Weir ; engraved on steel b...

Print shows children departing a rural school house in Tappan, New York. Title from item. Printed below title: Engraved for the New York Mirror.

Ichi

Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, facing right, a parasol lying on the ground next to her and a book on women's moral education depicted behind her. Title and other descriptive information compiled by... More

U.S. Reports: Vidal et al. v. Girard's Executors, 43 U.S. (2 How) 127 ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 43; Howard Volume 2; January Term, 1844; Francois Fenelon Vidal, John F. Girard, and others, Citizens and Subjects of the Monarchy of France, and Henry Stump, Complainants and A... More

Writing and book-keeping academy! In a lady's education, a plain, easy...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 58, Folder 17.

Education inclined / / designed & executed by TLB 9th mo 11th 1845 in ...

Elaborate pen calligraphy surrounding a wood-engraving of a raft with a tent and campfire floating on a river, perhaps an image of Huck Finn. Calligraphy reads: Tis education forms the common mind, just as the ... More

The political and military reformer. Devoted to the support of truly R...

Prospectus. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 8, Folder 15.

St. Mary's Hall / lith. of T. Sinclair, Phila.

Print shows an exterior view of St. Mary's Hall from the Delaware River, with stone retaining wall along the river, trees on the lawn and the building at center, reflected in the river. Title from item. Illus. ... More

Philadelphia, July 15th, 1850. Sir: The undersigned, a committee appoi...

Print speciman of diploma for Fort Valley Female Seminary, Houston Cou...

Illustration shows diploma decorated with vignette. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Lithography, engraving and printing establishment of Augs. Kollner : designer, engraver & lithographer, copperplate... More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Annie Sullivan, undated

Available text: Transcription

Dancing, as a means of physical education; with remarks on deformities...

In her strong defense of dance and its application to female physical education, Mrs. Webster declares that dancing as exercise "is the very best safeguard against the evils of over mental education." While sh... More

Notes on public subjects made during a tour in the United States and i...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Notes on public subjects made during a tour in the United States and i...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

U.S. Reports: Executors of McDonogh et al. v. Murdoch et al., 56 U.S. ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 56; Howard Volume 15; December Term, 1853; Executors of John McDonogh, deceased, and others, v. Mary Murdoch and others, Heirs of John McDonogh, deceased, The

U.S. Reports: Kissell v. St. Louis Public Schools, 59 U.S. (18 How.) 1...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 59; Howard Volume 18; December Term, 1855; Jacob Kissell, Plaintiff in Error, v. The Board of the President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools

[Design drawing for mural with Sage Chapel, Young Manhood, Education, ...

An evening at Oakland. Romance, composed & respectfully dedicated to t...

Print shows a view from the street of a large white building, the Oakland Female Institute, on the top of a hill, with sidewalk, pedestrians, and parkland in the foreground. Title from item. Signed on stone in ... More

U.S. Reports: Congdon, et al. and Tennessee Mining Company vs. Goodman...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 67; Black Volume 2; December Term, 1862; Congdon, et al. and Tennessee Mining Company vs. Goodman and Bledsoe

[The Waltham Bank fifty dollar private bank note proof]

Print shows vignettes of women symbolizing knowledge and medicine in front of a factory; a Native American man; and a man filing metal.

Proclamation. [Presidential powers to grant reprieves and pardons.]

U.S. Reports: State of Minnesota v. Bachelder, 68 U.S. (1 Wall.) 109 (...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 68; Wallace Volume 1; December Term, 1863; State of Minnesota v. Bachelder, The

[Capitol, detail of "Progress of Civilization," Thomas Crawford; east ...

Photograph shows detail of schoolmaster and child from Thomas Crawford's Progress of Civilization in the pediment over the east entrance to the Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol In album: Benjamin Brown French "P... More

View of transparency in front of headquarters of Supervisory Committee...

A representation of an enormous illuminated transparency displayed on thefacade of the federal recruiting office for Negro troops on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia on November 1, 1864. The display celebrated t... More

Union and liberty! And union and slavery!

An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. ... More

Musul'manskaia shkola Shkola (mekteb-khane)

Photograph shows students seated outdoors gathered around a teacher.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Vyslushivanie urokov

Photograph shows a Jewish man handing books to young boys. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

Musul'manskaia shkola Vyslushivanie uroka

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 67. Title from item.

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

Musul'manskaia shkola Uroki chistopisaniia

Photograph shows two boys practicing handwriting. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 67. Title from item.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Urok chistopisaniia

Photograph shows a Jewish man surrounded by four young boys. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

Musul'manskaia shkola Shkol'nyi obriad (aliamnashra)

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 67. Title from item. "Aliamnashra" translated from Arabic as: regular school custom.

Zaravshanskii okrug. Evreiskaia shkola v g. Samarkandie

Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

Musul'manskaia shkola Nakazanie (falak) [sic]

Photograph shows a group of boys seated in a circle. Two boys are using a pole to hold up the feet of another boy who is to be punished by a man with a cane whip. Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnogra... More

Swayne, Judge Noah H. Born in Culpeper Co. Va. Dec. 7, 1804 (U.S. Supr...

Zaravshanskii okrug. Pervye uroki

Photograph shows a Jewish (?) man with a young boy who is reading a book. Title from item. Illus. in: Turkestanskīĭ alʹbom, chastʹ ėtnograficheskai︠a︡..., 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, pl. 78.

"Zion" school for colored children, Charleston, South Carolina / from ...

Teachers and students in classroom. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, 1866 Dec. 15, p. 797.

"Uncle Tom" and his grandchild / W. Jewett.

Illustration showing an African American man seated outside a log cabin, being taught to read by his racially mixed granddaughter. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 514 (1866 Nov. 3), cover (p. 689). Title... More

U.S. Reports: Public Schools v. Walker, 76 U.S. (9 Wall.) 282 (1869)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 76; Wallace Volume 9; December Term, 1869; Public Schools v. Walker

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated;...

New York City - Medical College for Women, East Twelfth Street and Sec...

Print shows female medical students attending an anatomy lecture. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 30 (1870 April 16), p. 72. Title from item.

Uncle Ned's school

Photograph shows an African American family in a Rogers Group statuette by sculptor, John Rogers. Title from item. "From Haughwout & Co.'s collection" printed on mount. Publisher attribution based on provenance... More

U.S. Reports: Pennsylvania College Cases, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 190 (1872...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 80; Wallace Volume 13; December Term, 1871; Pennsylvania College Cases

Civil service reform. Mr. Curtis's scheme considered.- Collegiate educ...

Civil service reform. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 206, Folder 24.

[American woman missionary with students in India]

The mysteries of science

C265902 U.S. Copyright Office. General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 200... More

The mysteries of science

Print shows a young woman sitting on a bench, holding a young girl on her lap, with papers on which are printed the letters of the alphabet; a potted plant sits on a shelf to the left. D2659 U.S. Copyright Offi... More

U.S. Reports: Head v. The University, 86 U.S. (19 Wall.) 526 (1874)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 86; Wallace Volume 19; October Term, 1873; Head v. The University

U.S. Reports: Hepburn v. The School Directors, 90 U.S. (23 Wall.) 480 ...

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 90; Wallace Volume 23; October Term, 1874; Hepburn v. The School Directors

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell, February...

Gov't. Building, Dep't. of Education

Exhibit showing model buildings, including Franklin School, Washington, D.C., in foreground at the International Exhibition in Philadelphia, 1876.

Tilden's "Wolf at the door, gaunt and hungry" - Don't let him in / Th....

Children trying to keep wolf, with collar "Democrat", and tag, "foreign Roman church," out of door with sign "The public-school system is the bulwark of the American republic and for its security the applicatio... More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Alexander Melville Bell, February...

L'education d'un prince

G6078 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Girardet, Ed.

U.S. Reports: Beecher v. Wetherby, 95 U.S. 517 (1877)

Description: U.S. Reports Volume 95; October Term, 1877; Beecher v. Wetherby

Learning to write

Drawing shows a boy, seated at a low table, writing with a brush. Title from item. Japanese text appears on the right, outside the image box. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: [K]ano Dec.... More

[An old man, possibly a monk or scholar, seated a low table writing on...

Title from item. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Education" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Writing brushes

Drawing shows several types of broad and fine writing brushes. Title from item. Japanese text, possibly identifying the types of brushes, appears on the right, outside the image box. Unsigned, possibly by Kano,... More

Soroban (counting frames)

Drawing shows an abacus. Title from item. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. 1878. From the "Education" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collect... More

Ink, ink stone and water pot

Drawing shows a tray for mixing ink and water, bar of ink, and a small water pot. Title from item. Japanese text appears on the left, outside the image box. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Education... More

Sioux boys as they arrived at the Indian Training School at Carlisle B...

Photograph shows a large group of boys posed on in front of a school building. No. 1. Title from item.

[Students, middle school Mirgun Rüşdiyesi] / Abdullah Frères, photogra...

Title translated by Library staff from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Womens teachers college] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. le...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 15. In album: Schools, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Private school Mekteb-i Edeb] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M....

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. In album: Schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, Medrese-yi Edebiye] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M....

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Middle school for girls Nakkaşpaşa İnas Ruşdiyesi] / Abdullah Frères,...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. In album: Schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, private school Burhan-i Terakki] / Abdullah Frères, photogr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 26. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, elementary and middle school teacher seminary] / Abdullah F...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[The Mirgûn (Emirgân) middle school for girls] / Abdullah Frères, Phot...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. No. 297. In album: Schools, libraries, student and teacher portraits, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: ... More

[Students, Dersaadet (i.e., Istanbul) high school] / Abdullah Frères, ...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 13. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, private school Darüttedris] / Abdullah Frères, photographes...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, imperial high school] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S....

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 8. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, private school Darüt-Talim] / Abdullah Frères, photographes...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, high school Dersaadet] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S...

[Students, school for the deaf] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M...

[Imperial high school, Erzurum]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. In album: Imperial schools, architectural plans and student portraits, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collect... More

[A group photograph of the students of the Mekteb-i Mülkiye-yi (Imperi...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 21. Now known as İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Fakültesi. In album: Schools, libraries, student and teacher portraits, ... More

[Students, middle school Fatih Rüşdiyesi] / Abdullah Frères, photograp...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, central middle school Mahmudiye] / Abdullah Frères, photogr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Private school, Darüttahsil-i] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 25. In album: Schools, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, Nümune-yi Terakki] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[The Sultan Ahmed middle school for girls] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., C...

Girls' school, with lattice screens on windows. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 1. In album: Schools, libraries, student and teacher portraits, Istanbul and env... More

[The gate and the yard of the Mekteb-i Sultani] / Abdullah Frères, Pho...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 6. School is now called Galatasaray Lisesi. In album: Mekteb-i Sultani, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, with student portraits, buildi... More

[Students, private school Darül-Feyz-i Hamidi-yi] / Abdullah Frères, p...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. In album: Portraits of schoolgirls, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, Zühtü Paşa School] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 23. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Private school, Hadıkatülmaarif] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 20. In album: Schools, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Branch of the private school, Hadıkatülmaarif, Çarşamba] / Abdullah F...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. In album: Schools, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Students, private school Halile-yi Mahmudiye] / Abdullah Frères, phot...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 21. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).

[Private school Darüt-Talim] / Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I....

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 1. In album: Schools, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress).