Learning Collection (page 5)

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

Bedfordshire Lace School. Date: circa 1905

Playing school
Two children (and their dog) line up their toys to play schools. Date: c.1920

Maurice Farkoa - Musical comedy actor and singer
Maurice Farkoa (1864-1916) - Musical comedy actor and singer born in Izmir, Turkey. Date: 1904

Upper Vth Form, Sidcot School, Winscombe, Somerset
Upper Vth Form with a class in progress, Sidcot School, Winscombe, North Somerset, an independent Quaker school. Date: circa 1920s

Communist China - school-based factory
Students in school in Communist China, making notes and learning about machinery in a school-based mini-factory. circa 1970

Communist China - children in a classroom
Children in a classroom in Communist China, one of them standing up to speak. During the Cultural Revolution there was much emphasis on the raising of standards, and active learning was part of this

Kitten on a circular Christmas card, trying to learn the alphabet. circa 1900s

The Violin Lesson - A girl practises accompanied by Mother
The Violin Lesson - A girl in a short white party dress, black tights and a black bow in her hair practises some pieces, accompanied by her Mother playing an upright piano. Date: 1912

First Lesson in Dancing - mother and child in a garden. early 19th century

Cat and dog on a circular greetings card, puzzling over an alphabet book. Date: circa 1900s

Cat and dog on a circular Christmas card, puzzling over an alphabet book. Date: circa 1900s

Pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap
Eight pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs having a swimming lesson on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

De Havilland School of Flying Advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for the De Havilland School of Flying, based at Hatfield Aerodrome in Hertfordshire. Date: 1931

Learning to scuba dive in a swimming pool. Date: early 1970s

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - library book. circa 1910s

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - brushing hair
Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - teaching his son to brush his hair. circa 1910s

Girls school. Engraving, 19th century. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. Colored

Plato (424 / 423 BC-348 / 447 BC). Was a classical greek philoso
Plato (424/423 BC-348/447 BC). Was a classical greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates. Founder of the Academy in Athens. Copy of portrait bust by Silanion. 4th century BC

Medieval History. Jewish community. Children. Miniature
Medieval History. Jewish community. On his first day of class Jewish children ate cookies for them to know that learning was sweet. They had to be able to read the Holy Scriptures themselves

George Ernest Studdy, giant tortoise and frog
George Ernest Studdy, illustration for an animal book. I know I ve always been slow, said Mrs Giant Tortoise, so today being my hundredth birthday I m going to learn to skip! Date: 1941

Daniel Coit Gilman
DANIEL COIT GILMAN American educator, associated with Yale and other seats of learning, president U of California, and of Johns Hopkins etc. Date: 1831 - 1908

Lady Paela Fitzgerald
Lady PAMELA FITZGERALD widow of the Irish patriot Lord Edward Fitzgerald, with her weeping children, after learning that he has died in Newgate prison. Date: 1776 - 1831

Elizabeth Carter, Writer
ELIZABETH CARTER, scholar, writer and translator, best known for her translation of Epictetus; friend of Dr Johnson who admired her learning. In later life. Date: 1717 - 1806

Lady Mary Armine
LADY MARY ARMINE wife of sir William A. remarkable for her learning, piety and benevolence, Date: ? - 1676

Window Cleaning Girls
A team of " Georginas", demonstrate the proper way to clean window panes from the inside of an office block while the male window cleaners are away in the army. Date: early 1940s

Frances, Duch. Somerset
Frances Thynne (1699 - 1754), duchess of Somerset, wife of Algernon, 7th duke, lady of the bedchamber to Queen Caroline, patron of learning Date: 1806

Maria Theresa Geoffrin
MARIA THERESA GEOFFRIN (nee Rodet) French philanthropist and patron of learning Date: 1699 - 1777

Scholarly Monks
The monastic establishments were virtually the only repositories of learning during the Middle Ages. Date: medieval

Flying kites
Young boy and girl in a field with an older sister learning to fly their kites. Artist: Enid Warne Browne Date: circa 1922

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Allegheny County Court House, Cathedral of Learning (university of Pittsburgh) and the Koppers and Gulf Buildings - all viewed at night Date: 1937

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Birds Eye view looking east from Cathedral of Learning, showing the Mellon Institute and Schenley District. Date: 1937

John Hassall Correspondence Art School in St. Albans
The very picturesque John Hassall Correspondence Art School, a successful venture by one of the leading illustrators and poster artists of the day

John Hassall Correspondence Art School - the Poster Course
A man up a ladder posts a poster; illustration accompanying a section in the John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure explaining about its poster course

John Hassall Correspondence Art School brochure
Front cover of a brochure for The John Hassall Correspondence Art School. Hassall was a leading illustrator and poster artist who established an art school in Kensington in the 1900s

Wrens learning to salute, 1940
Probationary officers of the W.R.N.S. learn to salute, drilling in front of the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Date: 1940

Wrens probationary officers at a lecture, 1940
Probationary officers of the W.R.N.S. at a lecture at Greenwich Training College, 1940. Date: 1940

Girls singing or reciting in school, c. 1800
Girls singing or reciting in school or Sunday school, with a teacher, c.1800 Date: C.1800

Rural schoolroom, c. 1790s
Children on a bench in a rural schoolroom. Caps hung up on hooks. Date: C.1800s

French police training
Learning to distinguish facial characteristics of possible suspects at the Paris Prefecture Date: 1899

The New University - Cathays Park, Cardiff, South Wales Date: 1917

Advertisement for the Press Art School. run by art critic and writer, Percy Bradshaw. The correspondence course was recommended as a way to gain new skills for employment

Receipt, Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey
Receipt from the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey, dated 6 June 1889, confirming one years subscription of one guinea from Mrs R Blake Byass, signed by James Downing, Secretary

Prince Projatipok of Siam at Murren
Prince Pojatipok, heir to the Siamese throne, learning to ice skate at society ski resort, Murren in the Swiss Alps. The Tatler reports that

Madame Karina and Dancing School Pupils - Karina was a Russian Ballet dancer at the Royal Opera House, and founder of the school of dance at 123 ladbroke Grove under the patronage of Queen Alexandra

Five kittens on a greetings card, trying to learn a lesson. Date: circa 1890s

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