vintage educational illustrations

Historical images featuring children in playful educational settings from the Victorian era, including nursery rhymes and playful scenarios.

The Optician - Victorian image of Little Boy and Girl playing Optician and patient

Serie Kinderreime, ist die Katze nicht im Haus, tanzen die Mäuse / Series nursery rhymes, if the cat is not in the house, the mice dance, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital restaurierte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.

The Optician - Victorian image of Little Boy and Girl playing Optician and patient

Series of nursery rhymes, if the cat is not in the house, the mice will dance, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from the 19th century, exact date unknown

Always busy; New Dutch childrens prints; Funke's prints. Sheet with 6 performances of activities for girls, including representations of a girl who wipes and a girl sew. Numbered at the top right: No. 178.

Nursery; 1885; Great Britain

School class with girls and a teacher. A teacher is in a classroom. There are five girls around her. Two of the girls read something from a sheet of paper. In the background six girls are in the school desks. Paintings of a dog and donkey and a card hang on the wall.

games, children playing cooking, scraps, lithograph, Germany, circa 1890,

Activity for girls - Modelling with clay. Print 1884.

W. S. Underwood Pianos, Organs, Sewing machines, Wheeler & Wilson M'f'g Co. , Women, Sewing machines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Little Recruit, American Journals - Frank Leslie's

Mother you have tried all kinds, now buy the new Davis, they say it never gets out of order & runs so easy! Mother, no trouble to run the Davis. No basting it runs at one, look at the vertical feed and scalloped trimming is it not splendid! , Women, Sewing machines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Look on this picture! Poor Mrs. Brown has all day long been trying to color with old-fashioned dyes and has spoiled everything she touched. In comes bright Mrs. Jones who says: "Why don't you use Diamond Dyes". Look on this picture! Poor Mrs. Brown has all day long been trying to color with old-fashioned dyes and has spoiled everything she touched. In comes bright Mrs. Jones who says: "Why don't you use Diamond Dyes"

Annual sale six million jars , Children, Auctions, Canned foods, 19th Century American Trade Cards

A Teacher gets funny response to a question asked to a forthright young flame-haired chap. "Yes, Bobby, C stands for Cat; now what does D stand for" "What Father SAYS to the Cat." Date: 1918

Use Eureka spool silk, absolutely the best. , Girls, Thread, Silk, Writing boards, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Look on this picture! Poor Mrs. Brown has all day long been trying to color with old-fashioned dyes and has spoiled everything she touched. In comes bright Mrs. Jones who says: 'Why don't you use Diamond Dyes' , Women, Dyeing, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Teacher with three girls in school class, Sophus Williams (Possible), 1879 tissue stereograph Berlin photographic support. paper. cardboard albumen print / cutting elementary school; class, form

So great is the mania for blue china in late 19th century England that there's even a children's book on the subject - here, two girls handle the precious items. Date: 1894

Children playing schools, with a 'teacher' writing sums up on a blackboard. Date: circa 1930s

The teacher gives the class an arithmetic lesson Date: circa 1860

Youngsters Admiring a Perkins Windmill Catalog, Farm Machinery

Drum a Tune, Storybook Kids

Lewis Carrol cot, in Alice Ward, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London. Named for the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Lewis Carol pen name of the English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898). Funded by readers to the 'Pall Mall Gazette'. Wood engraving, 1906.

White, black & colors for hand & machine. Boy! Hurry up, the teacher talks, you'll loose of his discourse the thread, 'I dont care if I do I've got Coats' thread, it's best', the urchin said. , Boys, Thread, Cotton, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Which are the greatest powers of the world United States of North America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria, Italy and Bovril , School children, Teachers, Classrooms, Food, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Spencerian steel pens. Spencerian steel pens

Mrs. Blaize always have gifts to the children in the neighborhood, Randolph Caldecott

A cartoon showing a punished boy 'in direful plight'. Date: circa 1880

Soapine - cleanliness in the house, laundry, kitchen and workshop. Soapine - cleanliness in the house, laundry, kitchen and workshop

Quilting with Clark's O.N.T. , Girls, Thread, Cotton, Quilting, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Grey is Nearer White Than Black Is, Storybook Kids

First Steps, American Journals - Frank Leslie's

Drink Four Glasses of Water a Day, Children's Literature

Graduate on Ad.

Little Lily's Alphabet: Quiet and Still, Alphabet - Little Lilly

Dancing Lessons, Children's Literature

My Commencement, Harrison Fisher

Picture series Childrens Scenes II, Children at Drawing Lessons, digitally restored reproduction of a collectors picture from c. 1900

The history of education , History, Education. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection

Illustration showing three lines of girls undertaking a gym drill at the Polytechnic Christian Institute, London, 1888. Date: 1888

Engraving depicting children enjoying a book with talking pictures.

Estey Piano Co., manufacturers, New York. The first music lesson. , Adults, Boys, Pianos, 19th Century American Trade Cards

I'll Teach You to Wink at Mrs. Harris Postcard. ca. 1880-1920, I'll Teach You to Wink at Mrs. Harris Postcard

Watering the Plants, Children's Literature

Stereo albumin photograph by Julius Hofmann showing three children engaged in learning, presented in tableau format in 1889.

1910s WOMAN GRADUATE WEARING CAP AND GOWN PUZZLING OVER THE DELIVERY OF LONG STEMMED RED ROSES BY ARTIST F EARL CHRISTY

Illustrated poem titled 'Learner and Teacher' by Richard Wilton (1827-1903) a British priest and poet. The illustration depicts two young girls, one who is learning to write and the other teaching. Dated 19th century

Crafts; New Dutch childrens prints; Funke's prints. Leaf with 4 performances of a carpenter, a caremaker, a blacksmith and a canslager. Numbered at the top right: No. 172.

Tarjeta postal. Escena de sesión de guiñol infantil. Dibujo de Zsolt. Barcelona, 1940.

NIÑOS PINTANDO. Author: MIGNORANCE.

A toddler sits at his Fathers desk with pen and ink scribbling in a sketchbook. Date: 1882

This 1888 illustration shows children going to school in New York in 1700.

Domestic Sewing Machine Co., 'It stands at the head' , Women, Children, Sewing machines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Picture series From the life of Mozart, his first attempts on the piano at the age of 3, 1759, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture...

A boy and a girl making models out of Harbutt's plasticine Date: Early 20th century

Embarassed Boy Blue, Storybook Kids

Selecting a Floral Arrangement, Children's Literature

Heckers' perfect baking powder , Baking powder, Children, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Skittles, digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collector's picture from ca 1900, Liebig picture series Children's Games III (1892)

Our teacher knows a pile because he uses Pettits Pile Remedy , Men, Boys, Patent medicines, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Arab School, Cairo, Egypt, 1885

Photograph by Otto Schmidt showing a children's study around 1895. Albumin paper print documenting educational setting and interior environment.

Liebig series of puzzle pictures, You are a ... , digitally restored reproduction of a public domain collector's picture from c. 1900

España. Hoja recortable infantil. Niños y niñas falangistas. Editorial Roma, de Barcelona. Año 1939.

$C. M. Henderson & Co., Chicago. Red School House shoes - class in fractions. C. M. Henderson & Co., Chicago. Red School House shoes - class in fractions$

ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

Goldilock tries Papa Bear's chair, Children's Literature

Colour illustration depicting the tourist class playroom for young travellers on board P&O's superliner 'Canberra' around the time of her maiden voyage to Sydney, Australia in 1961. Designed by London architect John Wright, and with murals by Mary Fedden, the nursery featured a magnetic wall with letters and numbers. 'Canberra' was the biggest ship to be built by Harland & Wolff shipyard since White Star's 'Britannic' in 1914. Date: 1961

State School, Sandhurst, Australia, 1886. Artist: Unknown

Nazi anti Semitic propaganda illustration from a childrens book circa 1936

Playing school , Children's art, Play Recreation, Children

EL VOLATIN Y SU MAESTRO - DIBUJO DE ANCIANA LEYENDO A NIÑOS PARA LA FABULA DE IRIARTE - 1915. Author: PEDRO MUGURUZA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Colección de cromos de los Exploradores españoles (boy scouts). Grupo de jóvenes exploradores construyendo una estructura para moverse entre los árboles. Años 1930.

ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

Germany, Berlin. Lichtenberg. Stasi Museum. Children's' book featuring Thalmann Pioneers.

Children gather round while a boy reads from a story book. Date: 1893

"Passive Resistance" "S'elp me. They neglected his education, Bill." A cartoon refering to reaction to the Education Act of 1902. Opposition for the Act came from several sources. The most notable were the Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Labour Movement and the non-conformists. Non-conformist opposition was championed by John Clifford. Clifford formed the National Passive Resistance movement, which hoped to convince more non-conformists to resist the

After School; Apres l'Ecole. Louis Valtat (1869-1952). Oil on canvas. Painted circa 1916. 65 x 81cm.

ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

Proverbs series, out of sight out of mind, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from c. 1900

Philosophy Major, Skeletons - Academia

Henri Genevrier, says Grand Aigle. Imprimerie Maurice Dupuy & Cie. Back to school, clothing, trousseaux, pensions items. Poster. Color lithography, between 1920 and 1925. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Advertising poster, pension article, France, class, ecolier, child, color lithography, advertising, desk, returned, trousseau, clothing

The freshman before and after. Illustration by N. P. Hall, c1908. shows an uneducated boy wearing unfashionable clothes changing into the sophisticated college man dressed in stylish clothes

The future use for wash boilers; it is fun for the boy's. Use Eckers Swift Sure Soap for washing clothes without boiling or scalding , People, Dogs, Household soap, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Counting in Their Heads, 1895. Oil on canvas. Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) Russian painter. Boys in a village school in a mental arithmetic lesson. Russia Peasant Education Mathematics Master Pupil Concentration

Russian Language Major, Skeletons - Academia

July century, fiction number , Reading, Periodicals, Sitting

Keep Trying, Motivation

BORED OF EDUCATION (1936), directed by GORDON DOUGLAS.

ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

The Reading Lesson, 1855. John Dawson Watson

Series Genre Pictures X., Spain, Spanish folk scenes, Paris, 1878, school lessons, Liebig picture, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a collective picture from c. 1900, Europe

Josep Obiols / 'Niña mirando un libro', 1935.

Girls reading and writing Date: early 19th century

School, poster showing a woman wearing an apron with her hand in a bowl of food, reads: 'New Trier evening school Classes for adults, Wednesday evenings 7:30 - 9:30', print from the Federal Art Project, 1941.

Book and Pencils for Children's Day, China

A, B, C, D Illustrated Letters, The Alphabet

'A Famous Edwardian Roue Abdullas for choice, 1939. Artist: Unknown.

A Black Boy. A Story for Younger Children. The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Helen Bannerman, and first published by Grant Richards in October 1899

ABC Alphabet learning book by Kate Greenaway. Catherine Greenaway (17 March 1846 - 6 November 1901) was a Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations.

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