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Background imageLearning Collection: The New Learning, c1910, (c1900-1920). Artist: Frank Cadogan Cowper

The New Learning, c1910, (c1900-1920). Artist: Frank Cadogan Cowper
The New Learning, c1910, (c1900-1920). Erasmus (right) and Thomas More visit the children of Henry VII at Greenwich in 1499. The boy in the centre is the future King Henry VIII

Background imageLearning Collection: Woman! Learn your letters!, 1923. Artist: Elizaveta Sergeevna Kruglikova

Woman! Learn your letters!, 1923. Artist: Elizaveta Sergeevna Kruglikova
Woman! Learn your letters!, 1923

Background imageLearning Collection: Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded, between 1917 and c1920

Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded, between 1917 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded, between 1917 and c1920. Woman teaching soldiers how to knit at Lafayette House

Background imageLearning Collection: Fanning gas, 6 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Fanning gas, 6 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Fanning gas, 6 June 1918 (date created or published later). American soldiers being trained to use Ayrton or trench fan to clear poisonous gases during World War I, Camp Kearny, California.

Background imageLearning Collection: Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Creator: Bain News Service

Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Telegraph lesson - crippled soldiers, 06 Feb 1919. Two soldiers, amputee veterans of World War I, leaning to use a telegraph at a vocational school for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital

Background imageLearning Collection: Elizabeth R. Wylie & class, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service. Elizabeth R

Elizabeth R. Wylie & class, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service. Elizabeth R
Elizabeth R. Wylie & class, between c1915 and c1920. Elizabeth R. Wylie (1868-1950) teaching women about business and household finance. She establised The Financial Center for Women.

Background imageLearning Collection: Studying aeroplane [i.e. airplane] rudder, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Studying aeroplane [i.e. airplane] rudder, 1917 or 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Studying aeroplane [i.e. airplane] rudder, 1917 or 1918. The instructor is here shown explaining the principles of lateral

Background imageLearning Collection: U.S. troops in trench in France, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

U.S. troops in trench in France, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
U.S. troops in trench in France, 1917. American troops in France learning how to use grenade guns (tromblons) to fire grenades at German forces during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Learning pistol firing, Camp Upton, 15 Sept 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Learning pistol firing, Camp Upton, 15 Sept 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Learning pistol firing, Camp Upton, 15 Sept 1917 (date created or published later). Soldiers at Camp Upton, a U.S. Army installation located on Long Island, in Yaphank, New York during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Lewis machine gun crew, Camp Mills, 10 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Lewis machine gun crew, Camp Mills, 10 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Lewis machine gun crew, Camp Mills, 10 Jul 1917 (date created or published later). Soldiers with Lewis machine guns at Camp Albert L. Mills (Camp Mills) Long Island, New York.

Background imageLearning Collection: Traning women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service Berlin, between 1914 and c1915

Traning women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Traning women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service

German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. Creator: Bain News Service
German Nurses learning Russian, between c1915 and c1918. German nurses in a class room studying the Russian language during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin, between 1914 and c1915

Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Training women for street R.R. [i.e., railroad] service - Berlin, between 1914 and c1915. German women training to become street car drivers in Berlin during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: 4th grade students of the Irkutsk Mining School with a teacher, 1914. Creator: Unknown

4th grade students of the Irkutsk Mining School with a teacher, 1914. Creator: Unknown
4th grade students of the Irkutsk Mining School with a teacher, 1914. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Background imageLearning Collection: Cripple learning designing, [France], between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Cripple learning designing, [France], between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Cripple learning designing, [France], between c1915 and 1918. A disabled veteran, probably from World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Lecture room, Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Lecture room, Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Lecture room, Mar 1918. The Engineers' Submarine Chaser Training School which was established by the Navy Department at Columbia Univeristy and was featured in an article in the New York Tribune

Background imageLearning Collection: Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service

Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914 (date created or published later). Recruits at Aldershot army camp, England during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service

Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Recruits, Aldershot, H.A.C. Fargo Camp. 1914, 1914 (date created or published later). Recruits at Aldershot army camp, England during World War I.

Background imageLearning Collection: Minsk: United Jewish Vocational School. Drawing lesson, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown

Minsk: United Jewish Vocational School. Drawing lesson, 1920-1929. Creator: Unknown
Minsk: United Jewish Vocational School. Drawing lesson, 1920-1929. In the early part of the Stalin era, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far East--the Jewish

Background imageLearning Collection: Interior of an Art School. Creator: Gerard Thomas

Interior of an Art School. Creator: Gerard Thomas
Interior of an Art School, Unknown date

Background imageLearning Collection: Miki Toyokichi Educating Himself and Fellow Prisoners, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Miki Toyokichi Educating Himself and Fellow Prisoners, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Miki Toyokichi Educating Himself and Fellow Prisoners, 1875. Series: The Postal News, no. 449

Background imageLearning Collection: 'A Tartar School; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown

'A Tartar School; The Caucasus, 1875. Creator: Unknown
A Tartar School; The Caucasus, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Background imageLearning Collection: The Calligraphy Lesson, 18th century. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

The Calligraphy Lesson, 18th century. Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
The Calligraphy Lesson, 18th century

Background imageLearning Collection: Two studies of a maid teaching a boy to read on her lap, 1874-1927. Creator: Johan Antonie de Jonge

Two studies of a maid teaching a boy to read on her lap, 1874-1927. Creator: Johan Antonie de Jonge
Two studies of a maid teaching a boy to read on her lap, 1874-1927

Background imageLearning Collection: Bedroom with son Jantje and Bietja, an enslaved girl, 1784. Creator: Jan Brandes

Bedroom with son Jantje and Bietja, an enslaved girl, 1784. Creator: Jan Brandes
Bedroom with son Jantje and Bietja, an enslaved girl, 1784. Bedroom of the draftsman Jan Brandes with a bed and mosquito net, long-case clock and tricorne

Background imageLearning Collection: The schoolmaster, 1670-1709. Creator: Bernardus van Schijndel

The schoolmaster, 1670-1709. Creator: Bernardus van Schijndel
The schoolmaster, 1670-1709

Background imageLearning Collection: The Drawing Lesson, 1634. Creator: Jan ter Borch

The Drawing Lesson, 1634. Creator: Jan ter Borch
The Drawing Lesson, 1634

Background imageLearning Collection: The New Song, 1740-1760. Creator: Jan Josef Horemans II

The New Song, 1740-1760. Creator: Jan Josef Horemans II
The New Song, 1740-1760

Background imageLearning Collection: The music lesson, 1660-1690. Creator: Jacob Toorenvliet

The music lesson, 1660-1690. Creator: Jacob Toorenvliet
The music lesson, 1660-1690

Background imageLearning Collection: Anatomy lesson. Creator: Willem Pietersz. Buytewech

Anatomy lesson. Creator: Willem Pietersz. Buytewech
Anatomy lesson

Background imageLearning Collection: Musical group, 1806. Creator: Jacob Willemsz. de Vos

Musical group, 1806. Creator: Jacob Willemsz. de Vos
Musical group, 1806

Background imageLearning Collection: Drawing lessons at an academy, 1774-1833. Creator: Jacob Smies

Drawing lessons at an academy, 1774-1833. Creator: Jacob Smies
Drawing lessons at an academy, 1774-1833. A dozen men are drawing a life model who is smoking a pipe

Background imageLearning Collection: The Night School, 1786. Creator: Michiel Versteegh

The Night School, 1786. Creator: Michiel Versteegh
The Night School, 1786

Background imageLearning Collection: Airs and graces, 1872-1909. Creator: Laura Theresa Epps Alma-Tadema

Airs and graces, 1872-1909. Creator: Laura Theresa Epps Alma-Tadema
Airs and graces, 1872-1909

Background imageLearning Collection: The Children of the Planet Mercury, c.1645. Creator: Jan Brueghel the younger

The Children of the Planet Mercury, c.1645. Creator: Jan Brueghel the younger
The Children of the Planet Mercury, c.1645

Background imageLearning Collection: 'The Free Education Act -- The Sewing Class of Elder Girls, 1891. Creator: Paul Charles Renouard

'The Free Education Act -- The Sewing Class of Elder Girls, 1891. Creator: Paul Charles Renouard
'The Free Education Act -- The Sewing Class of Elder Girls, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Background imageLearning Collection: The Revival of Learning, the Invention of Printing and Gunpowder and the Discovery of America, 1784

The Revival of Learning, the Invention of Printing and Gunpowder and the Discovery of America, 1784

Background imageLearning Collection: A furniture and repair shop at Snow Hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

A furniture and repair shop at Snow Hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
A furniture and repair shop at Snow Hill, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: Advanced cooking class; Saint Augustine's School; [Raleigh, North Carolina], (1923?)

Advanced cooking class; Saint Augustine's School; [Raleigh, North Carolina], (1923?). Creator: Unknown
Advanced cooking class; Saint Augustine's School; [Raleigh, North Carolina], (1923?)

Background imageLearning Collection: Sewing lesson in a Gloucester County school, Va. 1915. Creator: Unknown

Sewing lesson in a Gloucester County school, Va. 1915. Creator: Unknown
Sewing lesson in a Gloucester County school, Va. 1915

Background imageLearning Collection: Learning to map the Parish, Gammon Theological Seminary, 1922. Creator: Unknown

Learning to map the Parish, Gammon Theological Seminary, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Learning to map the Parish, Gammon Theological Seminary, 1922

Background imageLearning Collection: A sewing-class at Snow Hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

A sewing-class at Snow Hill, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
A sewing-class at Snow Hill, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: An out-of-door class in laundry work, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

An out-of-door class in laundry work, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
An out-of-door class in laundry work, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: Class in cooking, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Class in cooking, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Class in cooking, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: Learning dressmaking, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Learning dressmaking, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Learning dressmaking, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: Chemical laboratory, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Chemical laboratory, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Chemical laboratory, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: Wood-turning machinery, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Wood-turning machinery, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Wood-turning machinery, 1904

Background imageLearning Collection: The blacksmith shop, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

The blacksmith shop, 1904. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
The blacksmith shop, 1904



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