How the Students Will Study, from "Harper's Weekly"

Skip to main content
How the Students Will Study, from "Harper's Weekly"
How the Students Will Study, from "Harper's Weekly"
Artist/Maker (American, born Germany, 1840 - 1902)
Datepublished October 2, 1869
MediumWood engraving on newsprint
DimensionsComposition: 14 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. (35.9 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (40 × 27.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Professor Emeritus Jay Williams, Class of 1954
Object number2019.13.110
Not on view
Collections

Additional Details

Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Jay G. Williams.
Signature Signed "Th Nast" in block at center of the composition.
Inscribed Title in block at bottom of composition in black ink. Page number "636," publisher, and publication date "October 2, 1869" typeset above image in black ink.
King Andy I: How He Will Look and What He Will Do, from "Harper's Weekly"
King Andy I: How He Will Look and What He Will Do, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 3, 1866
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.83
How the Copperheads Obtain their Votes, from "Harper's Weekly"
How the Copperheads Obtain their Votes, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 12, 1864
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.65
Harrow: Appel des e'leves (Harrow: call from students)
Harrow: Appel des e'leves (Harrow: call from students)
Pierre Verger
Date: 1935-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.203
Photograph by John Bentham.
Sketchbook [Art Students League]
William C. Palmer
Date: 1925-26
Medium: Graphite, crayon, watercolor and ink on paper
Object number: WCP.XXX.23
Photograph by John Bentham.
The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.37
Students at the countryside (men playing instruments outdoors)
Students at the countryside (men playing instruments outdoors)
Luc Chessex
Date: c. 1960s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.64
Students, American University, Jack Leroy Woods Gate, Washington, DC
Students, American University, Jack Leroy Woods Gate, Washington, DC
Paul Almasy
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.5
University students in the cafeteria, likely Spain
University students in the cafeteria, likely Spain
Paul Almasy
Date: 1950-1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.26
Burn Summons: Tom Hayden, left, and Jerry Rubin reduce to ashes subpoenas to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in what they termed gestures of contempt. The two, who figured prominantely in the recent Chicago street demonstrations, said that in spite of the burning of the summons they will appear as requested before the committee in Washington October 1. Hayden is founder of the Students for a Democratic Society; Rubin a self-styled Yippie revolutionist.
Burn Summons: Tom Hayden, left, and Jerry Rubin reduce to ashes subpoenas to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in what they termed gestures of contempt. The two, who figured prominantely in the recent Chicago street demonstrations, said that in spite of the burning of the summons they will appear as requested before the committee in Washington October 1. Hayden is founder of the Students for a Democratic Society; Rubin a self-styled Yippie revolutionist.
Edward Kitch
Date: September 23, 1968
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.104
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
© Michael Smith. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College,…
The Students of Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, California
Michael A. Smith
Date: 1995
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.4
A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the 'Heathens' of America, from "Harper's Weekly"
A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the 'Heathens' of America, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 30, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.162