Sums Collection

A problem of income - couple trying to balance the books
A problem of income. Grenville and Sue Collins trying to balance the books as they await the Mary Evans Picture Library Royalty Statement...! Date: circa 1910s

Comic postcard, Little boy doing multiplication Date: 20th century

Marys Arithmetic Dream -- Mary hates arithmetic, but then she has a dream which changes her mind about it. (2 of 8) Date: 1950s

Jackie Coogan (1914 1984), American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films, as Tom Sawyer

Childs slate and toy gun on a Christmas card. early 20th century

Little girl teaching maths to circus elephants
Unusual Friends - little girl teaching maths to circus elephants. 1950s

Inaudi, the lightning calculator, performing at the Hippodrome, able to do mentally any sum given by the audience up to twelve figures in addition, subtraction and multiplication. Date: 1903

Childs slate with pen and toy soldiers on a New Year card. Date: early 20th century

Childs slate with pen and scribbles on a New Year card. Date: early 20th century

Childs slate with pen and scribbles on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century

Childs slate with pen and baubles on a Christmas card. early 20th century

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

Saint Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary (1207-1231), wife of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She spent vast sums of money improving the conditions of the poor, and died at the age of 24

Children playing schools, with a teacher writing sums up on a blackboard. Date: circa 1930s

WW2 poster, Elephants know no arithmetic. Its the little things that count. Attention to detail is vital to all good work. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Nursery Rhymes -- boy with slate, mice with cheese
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a boy sits doing sums on a slate while other boys play football. Below -- mice eating bread, cheese and an apple. Date: early 20th century

Children in a classroom, a boy stands in front of a mixed class of seated children with a book at his feet, opened on a page that says the cat sat on the mat

Gabrielle Ray / 1909
GABRIELLE RAY Actress, doing her sums on a school slate

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