Historic Education Scenes

Black and white images of formal educational settings, featuring instructors and students engaged in technical and academic subjects from the mid-20th century.

An instructor at Michigan State College uses an oversize slide rule to set up problems for math, physics and engineering students, East Lansing, MI, 10/1950. (Photo by United States Department of State/GG Vintage Images)

Anefo photo collection. Assignment higher technical school Dongestraat. March 28, 1958

Transport course at SJ School Central Station

National institute of Agricultural Engineering -- The library is the centre of the Institute's Information services; in previous years more than two thousands enquiries on machinery or farm mechanisation have been answered.(Now the Institute only deals with overseas and manufacturer's enquiries; all enquiries from farmers are answered by the National Agricultural Advisory Service who can if necessary obtain advice through the N.A.A.S. Liaison Section situated at the Institute.)The Institute also publishes its reports and other booklets, arranges conferences and produces film strips. September 21, 1951. (Photo by Pictorial Press).

An instructor at Michigan State College uses an oversize slide rule to set up problems for math, physics and engineering students, East Lansing, MI, 10/1950. (Photo by United States Department of State/GG Vintage Images)

SJ, State Railways. Formulas for price change routines

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Physics Lesson. 1964

Anefo photo collection. School students in Minjon (AVRO youth broadcast), the delegate young people from different parties. February 16, 1967

Anefo photo collection. Kriterion student theater in Amsterdam. Theaters, cinemas, students. November 9, 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. IBM chess tournament, the draw in Europe house v.L.n.R. Gideon Barsza, V. Pirc, Max Euwe, Donners and Larsen. July 20, 1964

La Breviere Trade Union School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Mechanising the Mines- British Training School USES American Mining Equipment, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1944 Young miners listen to a lecture on mechanics as part of their training at a mine-mechanisation training school in Sheffield. The instructor is pointing to a diagram on the blackboard.

School counselor talking to a school student

ROBERT HOWARD TEACHING CALTECH GRADUATE STUDENTS IN CONFERENCE ROOM OF NEW WING OF OBSERVATORY OFFICE BUILDING.

Officials - Mr. Barry Bingham, Chief of EAC Mission to France, Visits Schools. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Ir Van Dijk, De Vries. February 15, 1958. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Marcunist school in Amsterdam. World War II, Education. 1945. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Trade-Union School for Young French Workers - La Breviere. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough Warrant Officer Brown, one of the repatriated prisoners of war attending No 1 Resettlement Centre, Scarborough, was given the chance to try out teaching at a local school.

USIS Activities, Tours. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

American Community School. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Assignment for Parool Cyclation Middenweg. June 27, 1952

Vintage Photograph. Elderly man teaching a young girl how to navigate.

Anefo photo collection. Alderman for Education Art and Sciences of Amsterdam, Dr. P. J. Koets Prizes awarded to winners essay and drawing competition. July 14, 1964. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Transport course at SJ School Central Station

US Fulbright Students Meet Their PAOs. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Eugene Goossens was mobbed by hundreds of school boys from Metropolitan High Schools who took part in performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the final concert in the ABC's subscription series at the Town Hall last night. October 09, 1951. (Photo by Norman L. Danvers).

Swedish language course at the railway school

Primary school. 1968.

Järnvägsskolan, JV-Skolan. Utbildning till Elloksreparatör

Anefo photo collection. Press conference and preaching main building Free University in Amsterdam, the library. April 5, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

An Aussie At Cambridge -- Alastair at work in the college library. May 01, 1953. (Photo by A. Barrington-Brown, Camera Press).

"The Tragedy Of Russia" -- The Russians have a reverence for old things, for all their insistence on the Future, here three visitors are shown some of the priceless old manuscripts kept in the Lenin National Library, Moscow. "The Soviet Government appears deliberately to prevent intercourse between the Russian people and the rest of the world", said Mr. Attlee, British Prime Minister, when he addressed the Trades Union Conference at Brighton on October 24th last. Referring to "The Russian Tragedy", he added that the Russians were subjected to "fantastic misrepresentations" about other nations. September 3, 1951.

USIS Activities, Tours. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. New Amsterdam gave gift to school. Transfer projector and tape recorder. October 4, 1961. New Amsterdam

Anefo photo collection. Prince Claus opened school for poultry and pig farming in Barneveld. November 6, 1968. Barneveld

Professor Vincent. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

17½ year-old Mayor Walter Hoppe (wavy hair) holds a city council meeting attended by some of his city commissioners. Questions are being asked regarding domestic issue. Boys take their duties seriously, self- government helps to teach responsibility, prepares them for future. June 26, 1951. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Anefo photo collection. Official opening of the household and industrial school in Roermond, Minister Cals during the tour through the school. October 21, 1959. Limburg, Roermond

First International Trade Union Summer School Opens in Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Young P.M.G. employees are being given the opportunity, under a new scheme of career training, to see how various departments work, so they may choose on which side of the very broad ladder they can climb to higher positions. Three seen here movies at the department's training school at Ashfield. August 26, 1954.

Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)

Anefo photo collection. Calculation installation in use at Technical Hogeschool in Delft through His Excellency. Bone of education art and sciences by pressing the button. January 16, 1964. Delft, South Holland

First International Trade Union Summer School Opens in Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. B. de Vries 16 years, Olympia Prize for mathematics got command gelderlander press. January 13, 1965

Display of railway industry, laboratory

Portrait of faculty member , Teachers, Massachusetts Normal Art School

Albert EINSTEIN (1879-1955), German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, with a student

USIS Activities, Tours. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

In the university library in Bochum in 1965, Germany, Europe

Test test, Education Department

The track department, BA, calculator course

Anefo photo collection. Z. K. H. Prince Claus opened agricultural school complex in Ede: PR. Claus during tour. September 3, 1969. Ede

USIS Activities, Tours. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Officials - Mr. Barry Bingham, Chief of EAC Mission to France, Visits Schools. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Minister Deetman national education exhibition Utrecht. Minister Deetman (2nd right) classroom Koos Postema (L). February 28, 1989. Utrecht (Prov), Utrecht (city)

Anefo photo collection. Meeting Permanent Caming for Public Health and Education and Science on Smallenbroek Funds and Task and Position Academic Hospitals. March 11, 1981

Vintage Photograph. Young student doing homework. Frame 2.

Vintage Photograph. A student taking notes based on textbook. Frame 2.

Järnvägsskolan, JV-Skolan. Utbildning till Elloksreparatör

The Nordic Museum, the library. Librarian Miss Visen Lewin at a desk in the library expedition, 1909. Nordic

Anefo photo collection. Training Dutch national team, Denis Neville gives a few theoretical tips to players. 17 February 1965

Railway School Angelholm

1940s MALE TEACHER GIVING INSTRUCTION TO TWO VOCATIONAL TRAINING STUDENTS ON WORKINGS OF AUTOMOBILE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE

Anefo photo collection. Occupation Hogeschool Tilburg Meeting in the Aula Prof. Scheffer. May 3, 1969. Noord-Brabant, Tilburg

Anefo photo collection. Protest meeting of high school teachers at the wrong performance of Mammoth Act in Utrecht: for the addition. Verg. studied student stencils. August 26, 1969. Utrecht

Anefo photo collection. Commands Revue of Advertising. Public lunch in Apollohal Mrs. Van Someren during her speech. March 28, 1961. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Skiopticon image from the Department of Photography at the Royal Institute of Technology. Use by Professor Helmer Bäckström as teaching material. Bäckström was Sweden's first professor in photography at the Royal Institute of Technology 1948-1958. Optische Anstal C. P. Goerz, Berlin.

Young Britons Study American History- Education in Wartime England, 1943 Ronald Wale (left) and Ronald Prior stand in front of the blackboard and read a copy of the book 'Story of the American People' by C F Strong, during a lesson about America at Albany Senior School.

Education (EMV) School Den Helder, Recording 28-01-1972

Youth Leaders at Impington College- Education and Training in Cambridgeshire, England, UK, April 1944 During a session on 'mime', members of the Youth Service learn how to express 'horror'. They are taking part in a week-long course in drama, music and dance at Impington Village College, Cambridgeshire.

Vintage Photograph. A student reading a textbook with a pen in his mouth.

Teaching follows Alison Jones and Jennifer Davidson smile with professors Mitchell and Milgate (right) at the latest quip on accents. November 4, 1955.

Collection Dutch Heidematschappij. Woodworking, demonstrations, exhibitions. undated

Teacher students visit Tjörnedala. (Photo in conjunction with Blackeberg's teaching. Train homes)

The large library contains books of any field and is a special attraction for students in Graz.

Young researchers. Anders Brahme.

Anefo photo collection. Voting for the second parliamentary elections of 1963. These young people may vote for the first time. May 15, 1963

Vintage Photograph. Young man wearing school sweater sitting at desk reading book

Anefo photo collection. Exam photojournalists. January 20, 1959

Blind Student Gets B.A. Degree -- Her is 21 year old Afred Adanez using his Braille typewriter taking down questions read to him by 20 year old student Pamela Dixon. He has won his B.A. degree - but he gives the credit for his success to his nine friends. Night after night, month after month seven girls and two men students sat up to read study boks to 21-year-old Alfred Adanez. For Alfred, blind since birth, was studying at Liverpool University for his bachelor of arts degree. And many of the t

Anefo photo collection. Press conference on the 9th advice from the Open School Committee (COS). V.l.n.r. Veringa, Vellekoop and Trip (chairman c.Os.). May 14, 1979

Anefo photo collection. First BUL of the baccalaureas training chemistry. The BUL is awarded to Mr. L. van der Heijden, by professor H. Gerding (right) in Amsterdam. July 5, 1967. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Photo T.B.V. An introduction book for the learning school at the arms shops.

Photo T.B.V. An introduction book for the learning school at the arms shops.

1940S Standing Male Teacher Instructing Sitting Male Student In Front Of Bulletin Board Classroom Concentration Faculty

09/15/1972. Criminal police class, from the general police school.

Poll photo collection. Rome: the papal Dutch college. Father Zey with a fater in the library at a number of showcases with leaflets about the Roman Catholic faith. December 1937. Italy, Rome

Anefo photo collection. Minister President Cals officially put technical high school in Delft. January 8, 1966. Delft, South Holland

10/10/1950. The English philosopher Bertrand Russell, 78 years old, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for this year, is congratulated by a group of American university students from Princeton, in New Jersey, where he is giving a series of lectures.

Photo T.B.V. An introduction book for the learning school at the arms shops.

Computing the Emergency Course. This image depicts Coast Guardsmen computing the emergency routes of vessels in the North Atlantic.

Image of a teacher and student of the municipal HBS for girls (Wittevrouwenkade 4) in Utrecht at the school building.

Anefo photo collection. Burgemeester van Hall uses the new lecture hall for the university in Amsterdam in the indoor guest house. October 11, 1962. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Yoshiko Joan Mori, stenographer in Education Office, Ansel Adams

Anefo photo collection. Mrs. Erica Verkerk-Terpstra bought children's stamps from the students of the Mytylschool de Trappenberg in Rehabilitation Center De Trappenberg in Huizen. Children's stamps, students, rehabilitation centers, politicians. November 10, 1981. Huizen, Noord-Holland

Officials - Mr. Barry Bingham, Chief of EAC Mission to France, Visits Schools. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Jubilee Prince Mauritsschool. April 1, 1952

Photographic print of a young boy learning how to make a camera, as an apprentice, in the Leica factory. Dated 20th Century

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