Ici Lima --The first specialized TV school opened in the Peruvian capital: there are schools for everything in the world and as human knowledge expands, new schools open their doors. Each step of progress generates another, education is the driving force of modern civilization. Television, one of the most attractive inventions of the century, is still in its infancy. The future holds extraordinary possibilities for it, and in all countries we are trying to speed up the training of specialists. Peru deserves the credit for having created the first TV school. The program covers everything related to television, from the construction of a receiver to the production of a program. The courses last two years and the number of students is currently limited to 30. The school director is a TV technician, Isaac Aquise Chavez who is assisted by...

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Ici Lima --The first specialized TV school opened in the Peruvian capital: there are schools for everything in the world and as human knowledge expands, new schools open their doors. Each step of progress generates another, education is the driving force of modern civilization. Television, one of the most attractive inventions of the century, is still in its infancy. The future holds extraordinary possibilities for it, and in all countries we are trying to speed up the training of specialists. Peru deserves the credit for having created the first TV school. The program covers everything related to television, from the construction of a receiver to the production of a program. The courses last two years and the number of students is currently limited to 30. The school director is a TV technician, Isaac Aquise Chavez who is assisted by...
Ici Lima --The first specialized TV school opened in the Peruvian capital: there are schools for everything in the world and as human knowledge expands, new schools open their doors. Each step of progress generates another, education is the driving force of modern civilization. Television, one of the most attractive inventions of the century, is still in its infancy. The future holds extraordinary possibilities for it, and in all countries we are trying to speed up the training of specialists. Peru deserves the credit for having created the first TV school. The program covers everything related to television, from the construction of a receiver to the production of a program. The courses last two years and the number of students is currently limited to 30. The school director is a TV technician, Isaac Aquise Chavez who is assisted by...
Artist/Maker (French-Swiss, born Hungary, 1906 – 2003)
Date1961
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 9 1/4 in. (26.7 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.26
Not on view
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Markings Verso, bottom middle, black ink (stamp): "ALMASY"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner, (pencil): "PAL-1182"
Verso, bottom left corner, (pencil): "LYNX-ALMASY-65 6"
Verso, bottom right corner, (blue pen): "PERU"
Verso, bottom right corner, sideways (red pen): "2-65"
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
Segregation in Chicago schools: Pickets at Du Sable High School, 4934 South Wabash
Segregation in Chicago schools: Pickets at Du Sable High School, 4934 South Wabash
Date: February 25, 1964
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.263
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
A Child's First Lesson: teacher in a Peking school holds up card for children to repeat in English language class. Poems on Chairman Mao and the Red Guard movement are subjects in first year class of 23rd secondary school of Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 25, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.193
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
Our Common Schools as They Are and as They May Be, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 26, 1870
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.114
The Foreign Church (Roman) Declaring War Upon Our National Public Schools, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Foreign Church (Roman) Declaring War Upon Our National Public Schools, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 8, 1873
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.222
Manchester, England, from the series "School Truants: What the children do during the time they should be in school"
Manchester, England, from the series "School Truants: What the children do during the time they should be in school"
Leonard Freed
Date: c. 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.121
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: May 2, 1962
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.262
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Crowd of demonstrators kneel in prayer outside city hall after march from Soldier Field in protest to alleged school segregation in Chicago. March took place two-day (of) school boycott when court order blocked it
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.264
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Protest School Superintendent with Sit-down: Marchers representing various civil rights groups stage a sit-down in La Salle Street in front of City Hall today to protest retention of Benjamin C. Willis as Chicago school superintendent. An earlier scheduled boycott of classes was prohibited by court order
Date: June 10, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.285
Van Dolah School, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Van Dolah School, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Date: c. 1880s
Medium: Silver print on paper, mounted on board
Object number: 2009.5.2
School room, Greenbelt, Maryland
School room, Greenbelt, Maryland
Arthur Rothstein
Date: November 1937 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.39
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
High school graduation celebrants, Red Square, Moscow
Dmitri Baltermants
Date: mid 20th century, published 2003
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.3