Vintage school postcards

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Vintage school postcards

Featured here are some staff favorites from the Newberry’s collection. View more free to use and reuse images at our Postcard Gallery.

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Tommy doesn't like school Father wears big slippers Tommy goes!

M. W. Chase, school and church furniture

Study time

Going to school

High school, Ludington, Mich.

Secrets

A l'ecole

Campus scene, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.

The school for scandal

Boston

Earning a school sweater. It looks easy enough, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Cambridge: The Great Court, Trinity College

Boy reading book on desk

Sauce hollandaize

Easter greetings

Porto Rico, The Convent, San Juan

Het mooiste moment op school!

Brasenose College, with dome of Radcliffe Library, Oxford

The first girl's Sunday school, Gloucester

Please, Mrs. Smith, can Johnny come with us to Sunday School?

Study hour

A hit

Gli studi a carnevale

Off to school: Behold the world of books...

Resurrection High School, Chicago, Illinois

Behind the masters back

On the way to school

Girls in the schoolyard, Sac and Fox Indian Schools, Stroud, Oklahoma, circa 1910s

The cobblers wax

The caricature

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