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Week of the Teacher

Album Description

It’s teacher appreciation week in most schools. An Album might be a fun way to have a primary source celebration of teachers. Find one of the marvelous primary source images of teachers or teaching in the Library.  Add to this album with one or more of your favorite Library teacher images. 

Perhaps you’ll find an image that reminds you of a teacher or teaching situation you’ve had.  Or you might select an image that represents something you’ve experienced as a teacher or librarian. Or an image might just bring up teaching nostalgia.

Feel free to add a comment to your selected images or let it speak on its own.

  Teacher   Teaching   National Teacher Appreciation Week 

La Teacher

Teaching Notes

A familiar sight in the year of the pandemic

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020632240/

Reference note

Creator(s): Ponce, Alfredo, artist
Date Created/Published: [Seattle] : Amplifier, 2020.
Summary: Poster shows the smiling face of a teacher on a laptop computer screen. Behind her is a red globe of the world.
Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2020:074, no. 15 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title from item. No. 35. Dr. Ponce (Alfredo Ponce) aka Pholkgiant La Teacher from Lotera̕ Game series Clovis, California, United States: https://twitter.com/amplifierart/status/1263165334418120705 On bottom right corner: @Pholkgiant + Amplifier.org. Purchase; Amplifier; 2020; (DLC/PP-2020:074).
Subjects: Web-based instruction--2020. Laptop computers--2020. Teachers--2020. COVID-19 (Disease)--2020.

[Miss April Lou, teacher at PS 1, Manhattan, with six Chinese children, recent arrivals from Hong Kong and Formosa, who are holding up placards giving his or her Chinese name (both in ideographs and in transliteration) and the name to be entered upon the official school records]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94512334/

Reference note

Creator(s): Palumbo, Fred, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1964.
Call Number: NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--New York City--Nationalities--Chinese [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Notes: NYWT&S staff photo. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection.
Subjects: Immigrants--Chinese--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970. Chinese Americans--Children--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970. School children--Chinese American--New York (State)--New York--1960-1970. Names--1960-1970.

Ozark school teacher, Arkansas

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017730116/

Reference note

Creator(s): Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1935 Sept.
Call Number: LC-USF33- 006062-M5 [P&P] LOT 1657 (corresponding photographic print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Other title from file print. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Subjects: United States--Arkansas. Schools--Arkansas

Rural schoolchildren and teacher. Williams County, North Dakota

Teaching Notes

I learned with Dick and Jane!

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017780759/

Reference note

Creator(s): Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1937 Oct.
Call Number: LC-USF34- 030768-D [P&P] LOT 390 (corresponding photographic print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Temp. note: usf34batch3 Film copy on SIS roll 22, frame 131.
Subjects: United States--North Dakota--Williams County. Schools--North Dakota

Veazy, Greene County, Georgia. The one-teacher Negro school, south of Greensboro

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017796682/

Reference note

Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1941 Oct.
Call Number: LC-USF34- 046270-D [P&P] LOT 1559 (corresponding photographic print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Temp. note: usf34batch5 Film copy on SIS roll 4, frame 988.
Subjects: United States--Georgia--Greene County--Veazy.

Lois Slinker, teacher of the one room school house. rings bell to end recess period. Grundy County, Iowa

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017778655/

Reference note

Creator(s): Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1939 Oct.
Call Number: LC-USF34- 028417-D [P&P] LOT 1170 (corresponding photographic print)
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Temp. note: usf34batch3 Film copy on SIS roll 21, frame 742.
Subjects: United States--Iowa--Grundy County.

Knitting class Lafayette House, knitting class of wounded

Teaching Notes

This 1918 photograph of a teacher showing wounded soldiers how to knit reminded me of an entry in my great grandparents' diary from the same time period. In her entry for January 25, 1918, my Great Grandmother Anna Allen wrote, "Friday: Both at home. I did housework & finished knitting a sweater for the soldier boys. took it down to Red Cross room & brought back yarn for another." 

I come from a long line of teachers on both sides of my family. Thank you for creating an album to celebrate all teachers,   Cheryl Davis !

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014708165/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows woman teaching soldiers how to knit at Lafayette House, a convalescent home for veteran soldiers and sailors at 112 West 59th Street (Central Park South), New York City. It opened in October 1918 in the former Deutscher Verein house. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
Contributor Names: Bain News Service, publisher
Created / Published: [between 1917 and ca. 1920]
Subject Headings: -  World War, 1914-1918
Genre: Glass negatives
Notes: -  Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
-  Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ggbain 28004 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.28004