Learning Collection (page 4)

New methods with the deaf and dumb 1906
Interesting photographs of the method used in the early 1900s to help children learn to communicate. Date: 1906

Children reading together Pals by C V MacKenzie
Charming illustration showing two children, arms around each other as they perch on a stool reading a book together. Date: 1920s

Children reading together Story Time by Mackenzie
Charming illustration showing two children, a boy and girl, sharing a book in the middle of a playroom. Date: 1920s

National Waifs Association 1900
National Waifs Association for destitute boys in Stepney Causeway, London. Photograph showing Dr. Barnardos giving boys a chance to learn a trade in blacksmithing. Date: 1900

Cookery classes 1890s
The National Training School of Cookery was established in 1873, it commenced its work at South Kensington, photograph showing women being taught how to cook. Date: circa 1890s

APPRENTICE BRICKLAYERS
London County Council schoolboy apprentices learning bricklaying. Date: 1930s

PILLOW LACE INDUSTRY
Learning from Grannie! A little girl is learning the art of making pillow lace, an industry carried on by cottagers of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England. Date: 1930s

A stitch in time saves nine 1866
A middle class mother sews her daugthers clothing with the little watching her. Date: 1866

INSPIRED BY RUSKIN 1874
Inspired by their professor John Ruskin, Oxford students blister their hands making a road on a farm at Hinkney, thereby learning that work is a form of art. Or something. Date: 1874

Monk Mathematicians
Monastic mathematicians : until the creation of universities, monastic establishments were the centres of learning Date: 13th century

BOY APPRENTICES, 2 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 2 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

BOY APPRENTICES, 3 OF 3
Boys learning the wheelwrights trade at Dr Barnardos Boys Home, Stepney (London) 3 of 3 pictures Date: circa 1890

Tarot Card 2 - La Papesse (The Female Pope). Date: 20th century

Charlemagne, King and Emperor, with Alcuin
Charlemagne (Carolus Magnus. Karolus Magnus, Charles the Great), King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Romans from 800

Barnards Inn
An engraving depicting the front entrance of Barnards Inn. Barnards Inn is a former Inn of Chancery in Holborn, London. It is now the home of Gresham College

Woman tecs of Baker Street: a college for feminine undergraduates of crime investigation run by Mr Kersey for lady sleuths. Date: 1927

Nontron, Dordogne - Blacksmith High School. Date: 1906

A Royal-Navy Fleet Air Arm Air Gunner Practices at a Sho?
A Royal-Navy Fleet Air Arm Air Gunner Practices at a Shore Training Station During WW2

Old French Salt teaching a young lady to swim in the sea
An old Salt French Sailor is teaching a young Lady how to swim. He rather sardonically states that she must be good at drinking a her early attempts seem to be involving the ingestion of a certain

Administration Building, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Date: circa 1909

Curtis High School, New Brighton, NY, Staten Island, USA
Curtis High School, New Brighton, New York State, Staten Island, USA. Date: 1906

Boston Massachusetts, USA - The Mechanics Building Date: circa 1910s

Boys build mountain at school, Seaford, East Sussex
Boys build a pyramid-shaped mountain at their school in Seaford, East Sussex, in order to learn how to rock climb. Date: circa 1960s

Trainee Hairdresser
A male hairdresser learning to cut hair on a very realistic mannequin. Date: early 1930s

Four Sea Scouts at Colchester, Essex
Four Sea Scouts under instruction and making notes at Colchester, Essex. circa 1950

Mr Trevor Scott-Chard and Air Scouts
Six Air Scouts stand listening to Mr Trevor Scott-Chard talk about aviation, with a plane visible in the background. circa 1950s

Skewen Colliery workmen, Glamorgan, South Wales
Workmen and apprentices of the Skewen Colliery repair shop in Glamorgan, South Wales, in a group photograph

Three frogs learning how to swim on a greetings postcard -- two of them are reading the instruction manual while another one teaches them. Date: circa 1890s

Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689). Patron of arts & learning, abdicated 1654 died in Italy

TS Arethusa - Steering instruction
Boys learning to steer aboard the training ship Arethusa, moored at Greenhithe, Kent Date: 1917

Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA, showing trainees with B25 bombers, learning the skills of aircraft assembly by night. Date: 1951

What to Knit for Baby - childrens knitting book
Charming illustration on the front cover of a knitting book published by Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores. Date: c.1930

Training female dentists at the National Dental Hospital, WW1
Women at the National Dental Hospital and college in Great Portland Street being taught in the conservation room how to stop and fill decayed teeth

Women welders at work, WW1
Women welders at work on pieces of metal at a school opened at Notting Hill Gate by the Womens Service Branch of the London Society for Womens Suffrage during the First World War

LFB firefighters receiving knots and lines training in the HQ drill yard, 9 December 1958. Date: 1958

Ladies Wanted as drivers, WW1 advertisement
Advertisement from 1918 by the British School of Motoring emphasising the urgent requirement for lady drivers between the ages of 17 and 45. Date: 1918

Senate House, Madras Chennai University, India
Senate House, Madras Chennai University, Tamil Nadu, India. Date: circa 1890s

Paris Sorbonne
The seat of learning in Paris, towards the close of the 18th century. Date: circa 1800

Baby Walker 1930S
A toddler learning to walk with the help of a baby walker, at a creche in Paris, France. Date: February 1933

Pembroke College, Oxford - Building and College Crest
Pembroke College, Oxford University - Building and College Crest / Coat of Arms Date: circa 1910s

Three schoolboys apply themselves and become Oxford scholars
Three schoolboys apply themselves, becoming first class Oxford scholars. They then lend their acquired wisdom to become a Bishop, a Physician and a great warrior! Date: 1898

Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt
Students at work in the courtyard ( heart ) of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. The Mosque is directly associated with Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 975

LFCDA-LFB Recruits undergoing basic training
Located at Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, the London Fire Brigade Training School is responsible for providing basic training to all its recruit firefighters

Sea Scout training on T.S. Neptune on Ravens Ait island, on the River Thames at Surbiton, Surrey. Showing a demonstration by Assistant Chief Examiner Geoffrey Preshner. 25 October 1958

Skiing Girl
A little girl with her hair in pigtails, learning how to ski. Date: 1960s

Scouts learning morse code
Nine Boy Scouts of the 1st Coulsdon Group sit around a table learning morse code, under the watchful eye of their Scout Leader. 1950

A 17th century music school. A teacher sits at a table and points to a musical score while three boys sing; an older man looks on. A horn, lute and violin rest on the shelf. Date: 17th century

Maori Children
Learning to be good Maoris : The youngest children in the class are a little boxed up in their first lesson in old traditional Maori songs which tell the history of the race

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