Room inside school building where lessons are given

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A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.

A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.

A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.

An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.

A woman school teacher sits at a table with a book in her hand and a basket of needlework on the floor. Engraving by Charles Heath, 1844, after Richard Redgrave, 1843.

A schoolmistress with a class of girls. Woodcut, 1874.

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A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving after E. van Heemskerck.

A schoolroom with animals as teachers and pupils. Engraving by W.H. Toms after E. van Heemskerck.

A schoolmistress with a class of girls. Woodcut, 1874.

A woman school teacher sits at a table with a book in her hand and a basket of needlework on the floor. Engraving by Charles Heath, 1844, after Richard Redgrave, 1843.

A school medical officer trying to give a child an eye-test in front of a classroom of children. Wood engraving by F.H. Townsend, 1909.