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An apprentice teacher with a group of students during a reading lesson, first grade, Dix Street School, 19 January 1893.

A sewing class at Worcester Normal School (now Worcester State College) in this undated photograph from the 1890s.

Posture was very important for the prospective teacher. The entire school marches with blocks of wood on their head in this 1892 photograph of students at the State Normal School (now Worcester State College). The contributor remarks, "In today’s…

Photo caption: “Miss Rebecca Jones, apprentice teacher supervising the work of one of her pupils in grade 2 at Chandler St. School in 1892.” The picture I found in the archives was of a second grade elementary class. An older lady—most-likely…

I chose this photograph of a 19th century chemistry/mineralogy classroom because I am majoring in chemistry and found it interesting how different labs are today compared to back in the late 1800s. Many things were very interesting in this…

Many girls in a microscopy science class looking through old microscopes in the late 1890's or early 1900s. An undated photo from the collection of the Worcester State College Archives.