School Collection (#86)

Franco-British Exhibition - White City - Young Potter
The Franco-British Exhibition - White City - A Young indigenous Algerian Potter - from the Ceramic School of M. Soupireau. Date: circa 1910s

Making Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation robe
Miss Ruby Essan of Wimbledon engaged in her task of making the embroidered crown for the coronation robe of Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal School of Needlework

Medal, Derby Scholarship Tests
Medal for a 1st Prize in the Derby Scholarship Tests. Date: 1924

Members of No. 1 Course, Central Flying School, WW1
Group photo showing the members of No. 1 Course of the Central Flying School, held during the First World War. On the far right of the second row is Hugh Montague Trenchard

German school in Brussels, Belgium, WW1
A German-run school in Brussels, Belgium, during the First World War. Showing boys at their desks with two teachers in uniform. Date: 1914-1918

Konya - Minaret and Medressa
Konya, Turkey - Minaret and Medressa Date: circa 1940

Russian children learning the alphabet
Three Russian boys learning the alphabet Date: circa 1910s

Football medal, Derby Sunday Schools
Football medal of the Derby Sunday Schools Amateur Football League, 1910-1911 season, awarded to J. H. Watson. 1911

Statue of Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), the Author of Tom Browns Schooldays (1857) which stands outside the Rugby School Library. The statue was created by sculptor Thomas Brock and unveiled in 1899

Vaughan Library, Harrow School, Middlesex designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1863. The library was named after Dr Charles John Vaughan, the reforming headmaster of 1845-59. Date: circa 1900s

Dunderpate and his schoolmaster. The teacher says hes never known such a lazy, stupid fellow, and believes he hasn t enough sense to go in when it rains. Date: 1938

Christmas at Canton, 1911
Young Chinese girls at a Roman Catholic school of music in Canton, being taught to play Christmas carols by French nuns. Date: 1911

Dunderpates schoolfriends laughing at him
Dunderpates six schoolfriends laughing at him. Date: 1938

St Helens, Auckland - New Zealand - County Council Schools and the Old Metal Bridge, West Auckland. Date: circa 1910s

Airco DH4 biplanes on an airfield, WW1
Airco De Havilland DH4 biplanes on an airfield during the First World War. It was a British two-seater daytime bomber. Date: 1916-1918

Queen Elizabeth II - opening London Graduate School, 1970
Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of the new building of the London Graduate School of Business Studies at Sussex Place, Regents Park, London on 18th November 1970. Date: 1970

Argentine, France - Pont de La Balme & Church
Argentine, Savoy, Eastern France - Pont de La Balme, the Church and the Schools. Date: circa 1910s

Chios, Greece - 2nd Primary School of Vrontados
The 2nd Primary School of Vrontados - " Panagias Erithianis" ( Virgin Mary Erithiani ). This school has a beautiful stone building in a neoclassic design

France - Striking Clockmakers
A group of striking clockmakers at Charquemont eat a communal meal at a girls school. Date: 1909

Model Industrial School - plan
Plan view of a model industrial school for pauper children. The establishment, designed by architect Sampson Kempthorne, was intended to house and train pauper children away from the workhouse

Model Industrial School - elevation
Elevation views of a model industrial school for pauper children. The establishment, designed by architect Sampson Kempthorne, was intended to house and train pauper children away from the workhouse

Lord Shaftesbury moved by pauper funeral while at Harrow c. 1
An illustration depicting philanthropist Lord Shaftesbury as a youth and being moved by the sight of a pauper funeral while he was resident at Harrow School, Middlesex, in about 1816

Bootle Day Industrial School
The Day Industrial School on Marsh Lane, Bootle, Lancashire. The school opened in 1895 to provide non-residential training facilities for youths sent there by the courts. Date: circa 1905

Wales - school window

Kitcheners army recruits drilling, Chatham, Kent, WW1
Kitcheners army recruits drilling outside the Royal Engineers Electrical School at Chatham, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Howitzer smoke barrage, Salisbury Plain, WW1
A smoke barrage from a 4.5 inch Howitzer, formed by ten shells bursting similtaneously, during the First World War. Probably at the Chemical Warfare School at Porton on Salisbury Plain

Page from The Sphere, 4th May 1912, called The Newsletter, Week by Week. It features images of Indian students who have studied at the London School of Economics; Signor Murri

Schoolboy in his Sunday dress
A Westminster schoolboy in his Sunday dress Date: 1909

Our former school room Bedford
Our former school room. The Drawing room in the distance. Captain Ruddick and children. Bedford 1843. Date: 1843

Chile - Concepcion - Agricultural School - Principal Street Date: circa 1910s

School of Fine Art - Santiago, Chile
School of Fine Art (Escuela de Bellas Artes) - Santiago, Chile Date: circa 1910s

Major General Leonard Wood, American army officer
Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), American army officer, delivering a graduation address as part of military training activities at the Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

O. T. C School band, 1900
The young men of the O.T.C School band, with their signatures, pictured in 1900. Date: 1900

British officers training at Hythe, WW1
British officers undergoing machine gun training at the School of Musketry, Hythe, Kent, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Guildhall School of Music, 1900
A concert at the Guildhall School of Music, London, 1900. Date: 1900

Air Scouts learning aircraft recognition
One Air Scout from St Pauls School draws a picture of a Spitfire on a blackboard for a group of other Air Scouts to learn aircraft recognition

Officer Training Corps at Camp, 1909
Public schoolboys at Farnborough on an Officer Training Corps camp. From top, Charterhouse boys marching back to camp, rifles held upright

Scout Patrol Leader Willie Chun signing autographs
Willie Chun, whos 12 years old and an American of Korean parentage, is a Patrol Leader of Boy Scout Troop 90 in Hollywood. Willie had a special showing of the new Robert L

Cairo - The Arabic Law School Date: circa 1910s

Portslade Industrial School - Carpentry Workshop
Boys at work in the carpentry workshop at Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex. The school opened in 1902 to house children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for reasons such as

Portslade Industrial School - Band on Parade

Portslade Industrial School - classroom
Empty desks in classroom at Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex. Maps hang on the wall. The school opened in 1902 to house children placed there for reasons such as vagrancy, begging

Shrewsbury Schools c. 1931WHS Derwent Series
The main building of Shrewsbury School, originally erected in 1784 as the Shrewsbury Incorporation workhouse. The workhouse ceased operation in 1871 and the School moved in in 1882 Date: circa 1931

Swinton Schools, Manchester
The Manchester Union Industrial School at Swinton. The school, where 800 pauper children were housed and educated away from the workhouse, was established in 1843, one of the earliest of its type

Prince Philip performing in a Nativity play at Gordonstoun
Prince Philip of Greece, later Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born 1921), pictured playing one of the three kings in the Oberufer nativity play, while at Gordonstoun school in 1938

Harrow School - Old Schools Date: 1903

Doctor Faustus was a good man, he whipped his scholars now and then. When he whipped them he made them dance, out of Scotland into France, out of France into Spain

Switzerland - Payerne (Vaud) - Institution Jomini (a private finishing school). Date: circa 1910s

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