Historical Classroom Scenes

Black and white photos of children in various classroom settings from the past, demonstrating historical education practices and environments.

Re-Education Of German Youth -- ***** grammar being learnt by German youth school opened by the Allied Government Berlin, and supervised by the Allied Occupational Government.Seven Thousand of "Hitler's children" are received a democratic schooling in the American Sector of Berlin, where 222 schools are now in operation. The schools, which debunk the Nazi doctrine, ***** the kindergarten to the intermediate *****. September 22, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Work by the War Foster Children Foundation in the field of children's care of N.B.-ers. Reporting the work of the War Foster Children Foundation in the field of children's care of N.S.P. October 1945

The children at school learn to read a timetable.

Poll photo collection. Bernadotte, international school. Children at the table in a school class. March 1954. Denmark, Hellerup

Anefo photo collection. Boerhaaveschool Mauritskade 24 in Amsterdam. April 13, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Hie Holland England / Anefo London series. Education Dutch children England. classroom Arlington House, London. 1943. Britain, London

Anefo photo collection. Primary school. Class photo. November 18, 1948. Putten

Anefo photo collection. Textilia assignment. Kindergarten of Atelier Ringdijk Amsterdam. October 16, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Re-Education Of German Youth -- ***** grammar being learnt by German youth school opened by the Allied Government Berlin, and supervised by the Allied Occupational Government.Seven Thousand of "Hitler's children" are received a democratic schooling in the American Sector of Berlin, where 222 schools are now in operation. The schools, which debunk the Nazi doctrine, ***** the kindergarten to the intermediate *****. September 22, 1945. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Anefo photo collection. Palm Easter, children make palm sticks at school, primary school report. March 20, 1964

Interior of the special school for primary education behind St.-Pieter 14 (Haveloozenschool) in Utrecht: Kleuterklas.n.b. The address behind St.-Pieter 14 was later changed to Achter St.-Pieter 140.

Poll photo collection. Look at the Daycare center of the Tuborg Brewery. Toddlers are eating tables. March 1954. Denmark, Hellerup

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Anefo photo collection. "The workshop" Van Kees Boeke. January 25, 1946

SHAPE Village. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Boerhaaveschool Mauritskade 24 in Amsterdam. April 13, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Zierikzee School Brandreedvliet. March 7, 1949. Zeeland, Zierikzee

Female students on school desks, 1940s, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Vintage photograph. Classroom activities in public schools at Oak park Illinois

Interior of the public school for special primary education Kruisdwarsstraat 6 in Utrecht: school class with children.

Poll photo collection. Look at the Daycare center of the Tuborg Brewery. Toddlers are eating tables. March 1954. Denmark, Hellerup

Poll photo collection. Rijnvaart, reporting about the skipper's internegated in Mannheim. Skipper children read magazines. April 1, 1955. Germany, Mannheim, West Germany

Anefo photo collection. School Beverwijk, Romanerkweg 6. 19 October 1948. Beverwijk

Life at the Tapley Park Children's Home (the Chaim Weizmann Home), Instow, Devon, October 1942 Children enjoy a meal in the dining room of the Chaim Weizmann Home at Tapley Park , Instow, Devon, supervised by a team of nurses. Through the large window at the far end of the room, the gardens of the estate can just be seen.

School children reading in library

Anefo photo collection. School Beverwijk, Romanerkweg 6. 19 October 1948. Beverwijk

A Modern Village School- Education in Cambridgeshire, England, UK, 1944 At Bottisham Nursery School, children sit at tables to enjoy their mid-morning snack of fruit and milk. The children take it in turns to lay the tables and serve each other. Here, a young girl wearing an apron pours a cup of milk for one of her friends. The tables are set out nicely, complete with table cloths and flowers.

Anefo photo collection. Chess master Bouwmeester as a schoolmaster. January 11, 1954

Life In a Village School -- Story Time: Margaret (foreground) aged 8 listens intently to a story in the English Lesson; (English and Music hear favourite subjects. November 27, 1951. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).

Girls at Baldock County Council School in Hertfordshire enjoy a drink of milk during a break in the school day in 1944. Girls at Baldock County Council School enjoy a drink of milk during a break in the school day. According to the original caption, every child receives either a third of a pint or two-thirds of a pint of milk a day, and 'free milk is given to evacuees and poor children'.

Historic photograph, all boy school class, around 1922

Anefo photo collection. Kindergarten in Walloon Church in Amsterdam. September 5, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Anefo photo collection. Workplace Children's Communion Van Kees Boeke in Bilthoven. Pupils under supervision engaged in crafts. March 1, 1946. Bilthoven

Anefo photo collection. Mercator school. May 3, 1946

Schoolchildren from Drought Region eating Cookies supplied by Junior Red Cross, Sunflower, Mississippi, USA, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Collection, 1930

Anefo photo collection. Orange Free State School in Amsterdam. Class photo. March 22, 1946. Amsterdam-Oost

Young students in classroom, Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, October 1941

Vintage Photograph. Children at prayer in Sunday school class.

Vintage Photograph. Sunday school class coloring with crayons.

Parish Priest- the work of the Vicar of St Mark's Church, Victoria Docks, Silvertown, London, England, UK, 1944 Reverend Joseph Stephens leads the children in a hymn during Sunday School at St Mark's Church, Silvertown. The original caption states that the school hall (where Sunday school used to be held) was badly damaged earlier in the war, so the Sunday school now takes place in a curtained off section of the church. According to the original caption: 'average attendance is 24 children between the ages of 2 and 14. They are given a summer outing to Chessington Zoo, and a winter outing to a London pantomime every year. Funds are raised by raffles and donations'.

Anefo photo collection. Sparta School. March 22, 1946

United States: c. 1900. A one room school house with children of all ages.

Students in Overcrowded Rural School, Morehead, Kentucky, USA, Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration, August 1940

Anefo photo collection. Roman Catholic School Saint Louis Ulo-Mulo at the Spuistraat 239. March 15, 1946. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Spuistraat

Vintage photograph. School children drinking milk made available to them under the Special Milk Program

Anefo photo collection. School Beverwijk, Romanerkweg 6. 19 October 1948. Beverwijk

Children playing draughts. 1952.

Anefo photo collection. School Beverwijk, Romanerkweg 6. 19 October 1948. Beverwijk

View of a Severn School Classroom; 2nd and 3rd Grade. This item is a photograph of a Severn School classroom for 2nd and 3rd grade; featuring students. This photograph was used as the Defendant's Exhibit No. 169 for the civil rights court case Alice Lorraine Ashley, et al. v. School Board of Gloucester Co. and J. Walter Kenny, Division Superintendent.. Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia, PA). Photographic Print.

American Aid To Britain- Life at Dyrham Park Nursery, Wiltshire, England, 1942 Children living at Dyrham Park Nursery, near Chippenham in Wiltshire, demonstrate good appetites as they enjoy their lunchtime meal.

Nursery For Working Mothers- the work of Flint Green Road Nursery, Birmingham, 1942 Children at the Flint Green Road Nursery enjoy a hearty breakfast of porridge and milk. Toddlers eat at the side table whilst smaller babies eat at the top table, assisted by nurses.

Anefo photo collection. Stedelijk Museum. May 7, 1954

Vintage Photograph. A Sunday school class reading books.

Group of boys working in a carpentry workshop

USIS Library at Salon d'Enfance. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The children at school learn to read a timetable.

Anefo photo collection. Visit at Zwolle Vierling Kggers, Han is in fourth grade and raises his finger. December 15, 1953

AUXILIO SOCIAL. ESPAÑA. ORGANISMO BENEFICO ESPAÑOL CREADO EN EL AÑO 1937. HOGAR INFANTIL DE NIÑAS EN CLASE.

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection The children of Gibbons Road School, Willesden making articles of clothing for the war.

Vintage photograph. Three small boys hammer small pieces of wood at Congdon Campus School, Potsdam, New York

***** Jose Wettner has spent the morning battling with exam ***** Now able swotting up with a text book in the lunch ***** More than 37,000 children in London yesterday sat down ***** a battle with exam papers. The result will let them ***** if they are to pass on to a higher school. Jose is ***** at the John Rennie School in the East End. January 21, 1954. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Anefo photo collection. School GallilePlantsoen. April 12, 1946

Children at their first day of school, East Germany, DDR about 1984

Anefo photo collection. Girls at a girls school at the Keizersgracht 772 in Amsterdam during a remarks; On the left a girl when ironing. November 29, 1965. Amsterdam, South Holland

Group of Children Drawing at Desks in Classroom, Greenhills, Ohio, USA, a Greenbelt Community Constructed by U.S. Department of Agriculture as Part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, John Vachon for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1938

School opens with prayer. This is the private school in the Farm Bureau building. Pie Town, New Mexico 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Mexico , Pie Town, New Mexico , Catron County

Anefo photo collection. Boerhaaveschool Mauritskade 24. 12 April 1946

Life In A Village School -- First Steps In Reading: Rosemary (aged 5) is learning to read with picture and word cards. November 27, 1951. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).

Photo collection Government information service. primary education. November 30, 1965. Voorburg, South Holland

Vintage Photograph. Teacher leads Sunday school class.

Madrid, 1966. A class of primary school students.

Anefo photo collection. Zierikzee School Brandreedvliet. March 7, 1949. Zeeland, Zierikzee

Italy. school. 1940-1950.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Beatrix opens school in Leeuwarden. Princess Beatrix is running roof. September 14, 1961. Friesland, Leeuwarden

Vintage Photograph. First grade teacher looking at pupils paper with other students sitting at desks.

Boy and Girl Painting on Classroom Easel, Reedsville, West Virginia, USA, Elmer Johnson, Farm Security Administration, April 1935

Vintage Photograph. Inter-racial activities at St. James Methodist church. Frame 1.

Federal Music Classes, students in coats. 1938. Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Education, African Americans , Education, Music in education

Anefo photo collection. School GallilePlantsoen. April 12, 1946

03/31/1937. War Commissariat School in Albacete.

Children's Hour In The Flour (Seventh Of Eight) - Teacher Phylliss Landstrom gives her charges a few words of encouragement.After a few instructions, the kids were on their own during the project.February 06, 1953. (Photo by United Press).

12/31/1956. Crib-house.

Anefo photo collection. Princess Irene at school. March 4, 1946. Bilthoven

Nursery and kindergarten at the State Cotton Industry Plant in Pabianice. Children during a meal; from a series of photographs to the article by Monika Warneńska "Fortuna Kruschów", "Świat" 1954, No. 7, pp. 10-11; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1953 (1953-00-00-1954-00-00);

Children at Sunday school class, Ansel Adams

Rural Schoolroom, Wisconsin, USA, John Vachon, U.S. Farm Security Administration, September 1939

Anefo photo collection. "The workshop" Van Kees Boeke. January 25, 1946

Image of some children from the Fröbelschool Ondiep 63 in Utrecht listening to a teacher at the piano.

This colliery kindergarten with lots of music and paintings by Ruhrkohle AG (RAG) is run in an exemplary manner here on 07. 08. 1968 in Dortmund, Germany, Europe

Schoolchildren in playlette at the end of the school term. FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. Caldwell, Idaho 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Caldwell, Idaho , Canyon County

Grade schoolchildren. San Augustine, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Augustine, Texas , San Augustine County

View in a class with children from the Fröbelschool Ondiep 63 in Utrecht.

Anefo photo collection. Children's home for war system. November 26, 1947

Poll photo collection. The training of the Royal Danish Ballet. Children get education in the school of the Royal Danish Ballet. March 1954. Denmark, Copenhagen

American Red Cross Volunteers cooking and serving Lunch to Rural Schoolchildren, all Drought Victims, Lonoke County, Arkansas, USA, Lewis Wickes Hine, American National Red Cross Collection, 1930

Elsevier photo collection. Princess Irene (for window) lesson children's community workplace Kees Boeke Bilthoven. March 1, 1946. Bilthoven

View of a Botetourt School Classroom; 4th Grade. This item is a photograph of a Botetourt School classroom for 4th grade; featuring students. This photograph was used as the Defendant's Exhibit No. 158 for the civil rights court case Alice Lorraine Ashley, et al. v. School Board of Gloucester Co. and J. Walter Kenny, Division Superintendent.. Mid Atlantic Region (Philadelphia, PA). Photographic Print.

1950S Children Playing Vinyl Records And Reading Books By Fireplace

Vintage Photograph. Children's Nursery at Eglinton Church at Toronto Canada.

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