Studying Collection

Scene in a lecture theatre, with chemical equations written on the blackboard, a woman giving a lecture, and students taking notes. circa 1940s

Widener Library at Harvard University, USA
Widener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: 1915

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939) shown in the late 1860s with a pet dog. Louise was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Jews Study Talmud
Jews studying the Talmud, a compilation of ancient Jewish law and tradition : probably in the Netherlands

LENIN READING PRAVDA
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman, reading a copy of Pravda in his study

Study room at Rugby School, 1967
An elaborately decorated study cubicle in Town House, Rugby School. Date: 1967

Petrie at Daphne
The Pharoahs Palace at Daphne being excavated by renowned archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942) who devoted his life to studying Egyptian culture

Thoreaus Pond
Walden Pond, where the American writer Thoreau spent two years studying nature and thinking deep thoughts. His cabin was built on land owned by Emerson near Concord

Operating Table 1930S
A group of student nurses in theatre, observing a surgeon performing an operation

Bristol Uni Students
Women students at Bristol University reading in the library

Edinburgh Uni Studying
Students at Edinburgh University, apparently studying science, read and make notes in a library

Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia (1904-1918) seen studying in 1913. Devastatingly for his parents, Alexei suffered from haemophilia

Photographer preparing a portrait of a mummy. Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
A portrait of Greta Garbo on her yacht off Catalina Island. Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm and was spotted whilst studying at the Royal Theatre Dramatic School by the Swedish director Mauritz

J F Champollion
JEAN-FRANCOIS CHAMPOLLION le Jeune French Egyptologist, who by studying the Rosetta stone learnt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics

Girton College Lecture
A lecture at Girton College, Cambridge, a women-only college until 1977: the students concentrate and prepare to take notes

St Andrews University
Women students at St Andrews University reading books and making notes in the library

Modern Zodia: Scorpio
The Modern Zodiac: An Artists Almanac of English Society. A woman wearing a headdress of autumn leaves surrounded by scenes of fox hunting, college life & the new seasons ale

Boy sitting and reading
A young boy sits on a pouffe reading a book. Pastel sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Botanist at work
A botanist at work, studying a plant with a magnifying glass

Student Nurses 1940S
Four young British student nurses making notes together from medical textbooks

British Museum, Reading Room 1900s
Interior of the reading room at the British Museum, London. Date: 1900s

General Joseph Gallieni, French Army officer, WW1
General Joseph Simon Gallieni (1849-1916), French Army officer and administrator. He served in the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War

Cartoon, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot (Aestheticism)
Cartoon, The Six-Mark Tea-Pot -- a satirical comment on the new fashion of aestheticism: a man who resembles Oscar Wilde admires a teapot

Advert for Tricoline artificial silk fabric, with illustration of a young woman studying a dress pattern with her fabric laid out ready for cutting. Date: 1920s

WW2 - Australian Air Crew
A photograph which portrays a group of Australian WW2 air crewmembers studying their route. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - R. A. F. Studying The Pictures
A photograph portraying a British man of the Royal Air Force, studying pictures taken through a magnifying instrument. Date: circa 1940s

People of the Andaman Islands, pictures with a European Anthropologist. The natives photographed used to speak a language that was called Bo

John Hunter (1728 - 1893), Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He assisted his brother

Students at university in Italy. Italian scholars with their tutor. Date: 15th century

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Page from The Sphere with a selection of pictures showing art students at work at three of Londons art schools - Heatherleys in Newman Street

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a woman studying
Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a woman reading a book. Death and the Female Student. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a woman dancing with a scarf. Death and the Dancer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen

James Watt studying the force of steam
James Watt as a boy, studying the force of steam. 18th century

Schoolgirls in uniform studying in a library. Date: circa 1965

Catching a crab
Young boy and girl on the beach studying the crab caught in their net. Artist: Susan Beatrice Pearse Date: circa 1912

Boy with a hoop studying a daffodil. Artist: Alan Wright Date: circa 1910

Gwyneth Thomson and Helena Normanton
Two of our coming Portias. Mrs. Gwyneth Marjory Thomson, accepted by the Benchers of Lincolns Inn as a student in 1920. On the right, Miss Helena Normanton

Shanghai Races - studying the form-book
Two Chinese men studying form at the Shanghai Races in 1939. 1939

Naval Cadets studying a scale model of HMS Active
Naval Cadets studying a scale model of British Royal Navy vessel HMS Active in order to study rigging patterns and the complexities of running the ship. Date: circa 1895

Observatory in Peking (Beijing), China, East Asia, with brass instruments designed for studying the stars. Date: 1922

Humanised owls at school on a greetings postcard -- The Pursuit of Knowledge. Date: circa 1890s

A Bumper Mistake by Lawson Wood - Phrenology
The Phrenologist: Bless my soul, Sir; your bump of destructiveness is most abnormally large. You must be a soldier. The Subject: Oh, dear no; I m a chauffeur. Date: 1912

Four Ways to Put Your Daughter on the Stage
Page from The Tatler featuring a photo story of various stage and dance schools. Top left shows Miss Margareta Bonudin of Sweden at RADA enduring a realistic strangling

Officers of the Royal Air Force studying the days work
Officers of the RAF studying plans for their next mission. A wicker chair on a fruit crate can be seen to the right of the picture, evidence, suggests The Sphere

Dr Deijmans Anatomy Lesson
Engraving after a painting by Rembrandt, showing a physician looking in detail at deceased mans brain

A group of Brahmans studying the scriptures. Date: 1890s

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