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 by Kiyonaga Torii

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

South Jersey Institute. (For the education of both sexes). Bridgeton, ...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Harris (George) & Son.

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

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

Notes by Alexander Graham Bell, undated

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, Kuniyoshi Utagawa

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

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

Trade unions foster education and uproot ignorance. Shorten hours and ...

On verso: [Stamp] P. Amer. Fed. Of Labor. 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 209, Folder 7.

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

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.

[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

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

[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.]

[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.

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...

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 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. 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 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. Evreiskaia shkola v g. Samarkandie

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

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

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

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.

Handel and Hayden Hall occupied by the Union Business College of Phila...

Photograph shows students attending class at Union Business College, now named Peirce College, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Title from item. Continuation of caption on verso: Thomas May Peirce, A.M., Presiden... More

"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

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

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

[Universal Exhibition of Vienna, 1873 : American rural schoolhouse, in...

Interior of schoolhouse. Photoprint by J. Löroy. No. 52 in portfolio: Weltausstellung Wien, 1873. Print also numbered: no. 845. This record contains partially verified, old data from caption card. Caption card ... 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

A village public school - the young orator

Barefoot boy facing class in rhetorical pose. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 769. Reference copy may be in LOT 7003. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card trac... More

In disgrace at school

Boys teasing girl in classroom. Stereo copyrighted by F.G. Weller. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

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

Gov't. Building, Dep't. of Education, Pennsylvania, 19th century stere...

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

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

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

L'education d'un prince - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

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

[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).

[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).

[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

[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).

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

[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).

[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).

[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).

[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, 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).

[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, 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).

Private school, Şemsülmaarif Abdullah Frères, photographes de S.M.I. l...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 21. In album: Schools, 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, Merkez middle school, Bayezid] / Abdullah Frères, photograp...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. In album: Student portraits, Istanbul, 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).

[The teachers seminary] / Abdullah Frères, Phot., Constantinople.

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 19. In album: Schools, libraries, student and teacher portraits, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Ham... More

[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).

[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 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

[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, private school Rehber-i Marifet Mektebi] / Abdullah Frères,...

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 and elementary schools, Galata] / Abdullah F...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 20. 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

[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, 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).

[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).