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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Aunt Jen's room at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright. ... |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a fourth grade class at Washington School, 217 N. Broom Street, at work in the classroom. Caption reads: "A Fourth Grade at Work. Madison Publ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Washington school library class for the 5th and 6th grade. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Male and female students read and practice math at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher looks on from the head of the class. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Records room at the State Public School. Volumes of "analyzed accounts" are seen in the foreground, and small drawers line the right wall. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | F.A. Schmidt, professor of theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, with his family on the grounds of the seminary, formerly the Soldiers' and Orphans'... |
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| Description: | Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library at the Highlander Folk School. The woman in the background is identified as Septima Clark. Koinonia is a far... |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | CIO Session at Highlander Folk School featuring Frank McCallister, standing. Graph shows number of Americans employed vs. number of American workers union... |
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| Description: | Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs". |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in a straw sun hat reading a book in the Highlander Folk School Library. |
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| Description: | A group of manual laborers are reading books near a tent. "TVA" [Tennessee Valley Authority] has been collaged over the image. Part of a series of Highland... |
| Date: | 05 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Fourth graders at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown using microscopes in the school's science room. Left to right: David Meng, Tom... |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book on a bench, while a woman is standing in front of the entrance to the Highlander Library. A small group of people can be seen insid... |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Marquette school children posing for a group portrait while dressed up to represent their favorite literary characters. Some of the children are holding si... |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Emiline Curless, dressed as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Lance Felly, dressed as General U.S. Grant, admire Cinderella's slipper on the foot of Beverly Hoppmann... |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Patrick Page, dressed as Captain Kidd, peers at Geraldine Ellis' signboard representing the story of "Homer Price," a literary character who made a signboa... |
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| Description: | View from front of room of teacher and students in classroom of one room schoolhouse. There is a large stove on the right, and the teacher stands behind th... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A view from the back of a classroom of desks, a globe, and a map of Texas at Pythian Orphans' Home. Caption reads: "Class Room." |
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| Description: | View of women reading at Saint Xavier Academy, established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1847. The women sit in the grass near a statue of Mary and Jesus. Cap... |
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