25 Rare Photos Show the Boston Public Schools in the Late 19th Century

The Boston Pictorial Archive holds photographs documenting Boston-area adult and evening classes in the 19th century, with the bulk of the material covering the years between 1890 and 1893. These images offer interior and exterior views of buildings as well as adult students engaged in classroom work or other educational endeavors.

Schools such as the Evening Industrial School, Hancock Evening School, and the High School of Commerce are represented.

Students in a classroom

12 women students in a classroom

A group of 10 women in a classroom

A group of 14 students in a classroom

Female students pose for photographing

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Amazing Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life of Students of Eastern Kentucky University in the 1960s

Founded in 1874. The university has gone through many stages with name changes. It was not until 1966 that the school was officially renamed Eastern Kentucky University.

Eastern Kentucky University, commonly referred to as Eastern or EKU, is a regional comprehensive institution located in Richmond, Kentucky. EKU is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools - Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). It maintains branch campuses in Corbin, Hazard, Somerset, Danville, Lancaster, and Manchester; and offers more than 40 online undergraduate and graduate options.

Coming back the 1960s, when the university has just named the EKU to see what everyday life of students looked like.

A couple in the Ravine behind a bed of tulips in the 1960s

A couple in the Ravine in the 1960s

A couple in the Ravine in the 1960s

A couple on the steps of McGregor Hall in the 1960s

A couple on the steps of the Keen Johnson Building in the 1960s

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Lovely Yearbook Portraits of Students at Saint Joseph's College, NYC in 1969

St. Joseph's College (SJC) is a liberal arts college in New York State, with campuses located in the Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn, and in Patchogue, Long Island. Affiliated with the Catholic faith as an independent and coeducational university, the college provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, offering degrees in more than 54 majors, special course offerings and certificates, affiliated and pre-professional programs.

Originally named St. Joseph's College for Women, the college was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, in response to the need for a day college for young women in 1916. In 1970, a Charter amendment changed the name to St. Joseph's College and enabled the college to admit the first male students to full matriculation.

Here is a photo collection of yearbook portraits of students at Saint Joseph's College in 1969, the last year before the college was allowed to receive the first male students.

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Let's Flip Through Some Yearbooks From 1967 And See What College Life Looked Like Fifty Years Ago

It was a good time to be a college student in 1967. You could sit in your dorm room and listen to a strange new Beatles album called Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Need a cheap eat? McDonald's has a new bite called the Big Mac. Nothing to do on Thursday night in spring? Stay in and watch Batman and Star Trek. Of course, the Summer of Love was just around the corner.

Much has changed over the last half century. Then again, some things about college life forever stay the same. From public schools to private institutions, here is what being a college kid looked like in '67.

1. Hangin' in the commons.

Cape Cod Community College joked that CCCC stood for "cokes, cards, cigarettes, and characters." (Image: Cape Cod Community College)

2. They were nostalgic back then, too.

Just as we are waxing nostalgic about the 1960s now, college kids were throwing Roaring '20s parties then. (Image: SUNY Plattsburgh)

3. Homecoming!

The dresses look a little different today. (Image: Cape Cod Community College)

4. So many great haircuts.

Kids looked sharp. (Image: Cape Cod Community College)

5. Not all dances were formal.

Some great fashion was starting to happen. (Image: Oglethorpe University)

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Ivy Travers Dance School: Academy for the Talented Young Dancers in London From the 1950s to the 1980s

Ivy Travers operated a dance school in Hackney from the 1950s to the 1980s. The current owner of the school has identified a number of people from this very large set, taken during a show at Hackney Town Hall in 1959 or 1960, including herself.

Take a look.

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Started as a Mistake, Retired Gym Teacher Wore the Same Disco-Era Outfit for 40 Years of Yearbook Portraits

Retired gym teacher Dale Irby posed for his first yearbook photo back in 1973 at Prestonwood Elementary school in Dallas, Texas. The next year, completely by accident, Irby wore the exact same outfit.

“I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year,” Dale told Dallas Morning News.

At first he was horrified to discover the faux pas, but then his wife Cathy dared him to do it a third year. Then Dale thought five would be funny. “After five pictures,” he said, “it was like: ‘Why stop?’”

So he just never did, right on through this, his final year as every kid’s favorite physical education teacher at Prestonwood Elementary in the Richardson school district.

What started as a mistake, turned into a dare, and then ultimately into a 40-year tradition that ended in 2013 when Irby chose to retire. From 1973 until 2013, you can pick up any of Prestonwood Elementary’s yearbooks and find an aging Irby wearing the same exact outfit.

Vintage Russian Female School Uniforms: 24 Beautiful Portraits of Moscow Teen Girls From the 1900s and 1910s

Here is an interesting photo collection of charming vintage portraits of Russian schoolgirls from the 1900s.

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Wonderful Color Photographs of a Santa Claus School From the Early 1960s

Let’s take a sleigh ride back to Christmas past. Here are some pictures of a Santa Claus school from the early 1960s. These wonderful color photographs were taken by LIFE photographer Ralph Morse.

48 Vintage Snapshots Documented Student Life at Lynchburg College, Virginia from 1939-1943

Here below is a part of the photo album generously donated by Dr. Gay Morrow, 1943 Class of Lynchburg College, Virginia. They documented everyday life of students here from 1939 to 1943.

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38 Amazing Vintage Photos That Document U.S. Classroom Scenes From the Late 1800s to the Early 1900s

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. Her 60-year career as a photographer began with portrait, news, and documentary work then turned to a focus on contemporary architecture and gardens, culminating in a survey of historic buildings in the southern United States.

In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national reputation as a professional photographer and businesswoman, with growing success in both the art and commercial worlds.

Johnston counted presidents, diplomats, and other government officials among her portrait clients, while in her personal life she travelled in more Bohemian circles.

In the 1890s and early 1900s, as one of the first photojournalists, she provided images to the Bain News Service syndicate and wrote illustrated articles for many magazines. Her active roles in pictorialist photo exhibitions and world’s fairs reflect her high level of energy and determination as well as her exceptional photographic talent.

An interest in progressive education resulted in pioneering projects to document students at public schools in Washington, DC; the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; the Hampton Institute in Virginia; and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, 1899-1900

Outdoor class in botany, Washington, DC, ca. 1899

Students of 8th Division school using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape in school yard, Washington, DC, ca. 1899

Two girls and a boy pumping water at well of Hampton Institute graduate, 1899-1900

Women painting at easels in a class at the Art Students' League, Washington, DC, 1889

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There Was a Time When Kids Were Taught To Respect Firearms, Not Fear Them – Pictures of Schoolkids Learning Firearm Safety in Rural Indiana, 1956

According to LIFE, in 1954 more than 550 U.S. children under 15 were killed in accidents involving the careless handling of firearms, five of them in lake County, Indiana. This situation shocked Indiana Conservation Officer Rod Rankin, who decided to offer a course in gun safety to any interested child in the county. In the past year 2,500 children from 6 years on, with the approval of their parents, have taken him up on it.

Rankin stresses two things: never point as gun at anybody, even in play, and always check immediately to see if the gun is loaded… Rankin is glad to answer routine questions such as “How fast and far does a bullet go?” but tries to discourage ones like “Have you ever shot anyone?” and “If you shoot a man in the head how long does it take him to die?”

Some people think Rankin is starting the kids on firearms too young. But the National Rifle Association points out that four states now permit gun safety courses in grade school and says, “The earlier a kid learns to respect a gun and what not to do with it the better chance natural curiosity won’t get him in trouble.”

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