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Free to Use and Reuse: Teachers & Students

This set illustrates the wide variety of school, home, and informal learning environments that brought teachers and students together from kindergarten through college and adult continuing education, primarily in the 20th century. The pictures are from the Prints & Photographs Division collections unless otherwise noted.

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• Deaf children of St. Rita's School, Cincinnati, OH, singing the Star Spangled Banner in sign language. Photo by J.R. Schmidt, 1918

• One-room school, Ojo Sarco, New Mexico. Photo by John Collier, Jr,. 1943.

• Mother teaching children in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana. Photo by Rusell Lee, 1939

• Johnny Colon School of Music, New York City. Photo by Jefferson Miller, 1982.

• Faculty and students at the Seba Dalkai School, Arizona, 1955. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

• Adult ESL (English as Second Language) class, Khmer Village, Houston, Texas. Photo by Frank Proschan, 1982. American Folklife Center

• High school teacher leading band at Decoration Day Ceremony, Gallipolis, Ohio. Photo by Arthur Siegel, 1943.

• Integration in D.C. schools. Photo by Warren Leffler, 1964.

• 4-H sewing class, Paradise Valley, Nevada. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer, 1978. American Folklife Center

• Elmer Avenue Elementary School library, Schenectady, New York. Photo by Philip Bonn, 1943.

• Hodge Open Air School, Cleveland, Ohio. Unattributed photo, 1900-1920

• Scott County High School principal Gregory Figgs, Georgetown, Kentucky. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell, 1998.

• Islamic School of Seattle, Washington. Photo by Susan Dwyer-Schick, 1982. American Folklife Center

• First Korean School, Silver Spring, Maryland. Photo by Carl Fleischhauer, 1982. American Folklife Center

• St. Peter's School, Washington, D.C. Photo by Warren Leffler, 1969.

• Zion School, Charleston, South Carolina. Wood engraved illustration from a sketch by Alfred R. Waud, 1866.

• Emma V. Brown, teacher at the first government funded school for African American children in Washington, D.C. Photo by M.P. and A.I. Rice, between 1874 and 1876.

• Chemistry lab, Central High School, Washington, D.C. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, around 1899.

• A visit to the Library of Congress. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, around 1899.

• Female students playing basketball, Western High School, Washington, DC. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899

• Physiography lesson by the Underwood Stereograph System, high school, Plainfield, N.J. Stereograph card photo by Underwood, 1900-1910.

• Nannie Helen Burroughs and others at the National Training School, Washington, D.C. About 1909.

• Cotton mill kindergarten, Dallas, Texas. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1913.

• Textile mill school, Huntsville, Alabama. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1913.

• The North Texas State Teacher's College, Denton, Texas, Summer school of 1928, 3100 enrollment. Photo by Charles E. Carruth.

• Grade school, San Augustine, Texas. Photo by Russell Lee, 1939.

• School teacher in grade school teaching geography. Concho, Arizona. Photo by Russell Lee, 1940.

• Children and their teacher at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm family migratory labor camp. Yakima, Washington. Photo by Russell Lee, 1941.

• Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys growing physically fit through exercise. Photo by William Perlitch, 1942

• Painting class at the South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Jack Delano, 1942.

• Mrs. Mary Spangler, a Woodrow Wilson High School teacher, at a class in organic chemistry which she attends in the evening. Photo by Esther Bubley, 1943.

• Fashion designing class, Manzanar Relocation Center, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams, around 1943.

• Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Bethune-Cookman College. Photo by Gordon Park, 1943.

• Two teachers having a conversation, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo by Gordon Parks, 1943.

• Miss Mae Kelly, director of instruction, with teachers at Randolph Henry High School, Keysville, Virginia. Photo by Philip Bonn, 1943.