Learning Collection (page 3)

Caterham Asylum, Surrey - Carpentry Class
A carpentry class for inmates of Caterham Imbeciles Asylum. Like its twin at Leavesden, the asylum was established in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board for Londons sick poor with mental

A Teacher with Students at a Blackboard, c. 1950 (screen print)
3036446 A Teacher with Students at a Blackboard, c.1950 (screen print) by American School, (20th century); (add.info.: Vintage illustration of a teacher teaching her class how to write sentences at a)

Children from St Marys School seen here takng an English lesson. The large tin bath in the picture is being used to catch water leaking through the ceiling. circa 1960

The Flute Lesson, 1858 (oil on canvas)
XIR899023 The Flute Lesson, 1858 (oil on canvas) by Delaunay, Jules Elie (1828-91); 160x115 cm; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France; (add.info.: La LeAzon de flute. PE6670); French, out of copyright

Introduction to Orbis Sensualium Pictus by Comenius (woodcut)
XJF384000 Introduction to Orbis Sensualium Pictus by Comenius (woodcut) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: first textbook for children published in 1658)

Svalbard. Mother and child Polar Bears

Children exchanging notes during class, 1950s-60s

LCC-LFB learner drivers on a London street
A picture taken outside the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade in Southwark Bridge Road, SE1, on 14 September 1935, showing a motorised Dennis fire engine with an L-plate on the front

GLC-LFB Junior firemen learning to drive
The Junior firemen scheme in London ran from 1964 until 1969. 16-17 year old boys were put under extended training until they could be enrolled as operational firefighters at 18

GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 1790s. A schoolmaster instructing a class at a school in New England, 1790s. Wood engraving

Air Scouts learning to glide
Two Scouts sit in a Slingsby T.21 while another Scout connects it to a cable prior to launch at the first Air Scout Gliding Course at Lasham. An Avro York G-ANTK can also be seen in the background

PLIT2A-00051
Title page of Francis Bacons " Advancement of Learning, " 1633. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

PUSA2A-00060
Chigwell Grammar School in Wanstead, Essex, where William Penn was educated. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of an earlier illustration

Greenwich Observatory
Astronomers taking sightings from the old observing-room at Greenwich, England. Hand-colored engraving

Carpentry & plumbing, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys learning carpentry and plumbing on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868

The library and reading room in the British Museum London UK
Ashley Cooper / SpecialistStock

Border Collie Dog - training, rounding up ducks
JD-13088 Border Collie Dog - training, rounding up ducks John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Grey Squirrel - robbing peanut holder
LB-4956 GREY SQUIRREL - On washing line robbing peanuts from bird feeder Sciurus carolirensis Ian Beames Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Black & White Cat - drinking from tap
JD-17604 Black and White CAT - Drinking from tap John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Killer whale / Orcas practicing intentional stranding; Patagonia. The small population of Orcas of northern Patagonia
FG-eb-364 Killer whale / Orcas practicing intentional stranding Patagonia Orcinus orca The small population of Orcas of northern Patagonia uses a unique strategy of intentional stranding to capture

African Elephant - Cow with young calf. Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe, Africa. 3ME277
TOM-835 African Elephant - Cow with young calf Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe, Africa. Loxodonta africana Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

ABC OF BABAR M, 1939 (illustration)
7206798 ABC OF BABAR M, 1939 (illustration) by Brunhoff, Jean de (1899-1937); 22x16, 5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: M: 20 words to find: marriage, married, mountaineer, musician, monocle)

ABC OF BABAR H, 1939 (illustration)
7206794 ABC OF BABAR H, 1939 (illustration) by Brunhoff, Jean de (1899-1937); 22x16, 5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: H: 11 words to find: hippos, grass, swallows, rattle, cockchafers, hood)

ABC OF BABAR C, 1939 (illustration)
7206788 ABC OF BABAR C, 1939 (illustration) by Brunhoff, Jean de (1899-1937); 22x16, 5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: C: 78 words to find: cook, knife, kitchen, braces, compotier, cream, pans)

View of New College, The University of Edinburgh, on The Mound, from Princes Street at sunset, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Christs College Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and its coat of arms (b / w photo)
6031784 Christs College Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and its coat of arms (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Christs College Cambridge)

Knowledge Wins, 1914-18 (colour litho)
1768769 Knowledge Wins, 1914-18 (colour litho) by Smith, Dan (1865-1934); 72x49 cm; Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, USA; eNewberry Library; American, out of copyright

Advert for the Macintosh Swimming Ring, 1926 Date: 1926

Advert for the Puss Moth aeroplane 1930
Advertisement for the Moth airplane, manufactured by the De Havillalnd Aircraft Company Ltd. The illustration shows a Puss Moth flying of the Epsom Derby, while the advert claims

Vice Chancellor, Esquire Beadle, Yeoman Beadle, Verger, engraved by J
778193 Vice Chancellor, Esquire Beadle, Yeoman Beadle, Verger, engraved by J. Agar, published in R. Ackermanns History of Oxford, 1813 (hand-coloured engraving) by Uwins

Exterior of Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library, illustration from the
STC93533 Exterior of Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library, illustration from the History of Oxford, engraved by J. Bluck (fl.1791-1831) pub. by R

Godolphin House (gravure)
965568 Godolphin House (gravure) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Godolphin House. Illustration for Bygone Eton by R A Austen-Leigh (Spottiswoode & Co, 1912)

Lena Zavaroni singer fist in air with other schoolchildren. Circa 1960

Twice a week eleven senior boys ar Keighley Grammar School Yorkshire consider complaints by juniors who feel they have been unfairly treated by prefects. 1966

Debutantes Curtsying
Debutantes learning to curtsy at the famous Josephine Bradley School, preparing to be presented at Buckingham Palace and other High Society events, at the start of the Season. Date: 1930s

Ladies of the Land - Society Workers on a model farm, WW1
A model farm at West Malvern where girls of the higher social classes are trained in the practical work and theory of dairying, including cheese-making, poultry culture, goat-keeping, and so

Mothercraft
circa 1910: Mothercraft lessons for girls at a day nursery in Acton, showing how to bath a baby. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Caterham Asylum, Surrey
Aerial view of the Asylum for Imbeciles opened in 1870 at Caterham in Surrey. The Asylum, with its twin at Leavesden, was established by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to provide care for Londons

Boy with Slate Kept In
A little boy has to stay in to work out a sum on his slate

Childrens book adding
Teaching children simple counting in a Merry Days childrens book. Date: 1928

Giambattista Strozzi (1551 - 1634) Italian writer and patron of learning

Digital illustration of blank blackboard

New lessons and instructions for the harpsichord or virginals (engraving) (b / w photo)
XJF274319 New lessons and instructions for the harpsichord or virginals (engraving) (b/w photo) by English School, (17th century); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Millinery Class
Schoolgirls at a London County Council School learning hat- making in a millinery class. Date: early 1930s

Bedtime reading
MODEL RELEASED. Bedtime reading. Mother reading a book to her four-year-old daughter at bedtime

Beritashvili and students, Tbilisi, 1962
Ivan Beritashvili (1885-1974, centre), Soviet physiologist, instructing students who are studying the brain of a laboratory animal

Learning to read
MODEL RELEASED. Learning to read. 6 year old boy learning to read

Womens Battalion Death
Recruits in the Womens Shock Battalion of Death pose for a propaganda picture while learning to use their guns

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