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Photographs: Organizing, Teaching, Storing, Learning, Practicing, Selling, and Using Knowledge

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Here are the photographs from which the current selection of randomized header images on this blog were drawn. All of these images are housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. What do these photographs have to do with the history of knowledge? What stories do they tell? What questions do they raise?

(Click on the individual images to enlarge and for their captions and credits.)

Farm couple working on their bookkeeping at dining room table, ca. 1930
Three women sewing plane wing fabric in De Land, Florida, April 1942
Students studying in the biology laboratory, Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, NC
Blacksmithing at Agricultural and Mechanical College, Greensboro, NC
“Trampas, New Mexico. Mrs. Maclovia Lopez, can read and write English well; she also keeps the family books in the evening and helps the children with their homework,” January 1943
Old Corner Bookstore (first brick building in Boston, MA), ca. 1900, Detroit Publishing Co.
Computer Maintenance Operations Center, Beale Air Force Base, California, by Joseph Scott Murphey
Apprentices in workshops of Hebrew Technical Institute, Haifa, ca. 1920–33
Classroom in a Washington, DC, public school, ca. 1899, Frances Benjamin Johnston
Processing catalog cards in the Library of Congress, ca. 1917–20

Additions, February 28, 2020

OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Editors (February 17, 2017). Photographs: Organizing, Teaching, Storing, Learning, Practicing, Selling, and Using Knowledge. History of Knowledge. Retrieved December 4, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12ptc

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