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Back to School Days

Time to gather school supplies and bid farewell to summer. We have everything a student needs, from desks to books to the ever-important lunchbox. To learn more see "Slates, crayons, and quills: Back to school supplies of the past" on the National Museum of American History blog.


Illustration of calisthenics for elementary education

Churchill High School Pep Rally

Yale University School of Art

Safe-T Semicircular School Protractor

Ding Dong School: Let's Draw and Color

Pin, Lapel, Pride, Elk Creek Elementary School, "Magellan T. Bear"

Unknown Inventor/patentee circa 1875 School Desk and Seat Patent Model

safety patrol belt

safety patrol belt

Young boy at school desk with dog

Ding Dong School: Over-the-Shoulder Coloring Book

The Teacher

Mickey Mouse's School Book Handheld Electronic Calculator and Electronic Game

Fabric Wrapped Book or Double Slate

The Morning Walk – Young Ladies' School Promenading the Avenue

Ding Dong School: Miss Frances Says Let's Color

David Francis's 1874 School Seat Patent Model

Parents' Night at a High School Football Game, Harlan County, Kentucky

Folio from a Mihr-u Mushtari (The Sun and Jupiter) by Shams al-Din Muhammad Assar Tabrizi (d. ca. 1382); verso: Mihr at school; recto: text, Shah Shapur sends Mihr and Mushtari to school

Arithmetic of Practical Measurements to Accompany Kennedy's Improved Dissecting Mathematical Blocks

4c Higher Education single

22c Public Education single

33c Improving Education single

Button Design: Back to School

Dr. Seuss Lunch Box

3c National Education Association single

37c To Form a More Perfect Union: 1954 Brown v. Board of Education single

Mod Tulip Lunch Box

Flower to Teacher

"Oh! Teacher" Mutoscope Movie Poster

Hi - My Lunch Box

Wallace Pencil Company Motif Pencil Box

Welcome Back, Kotter Lunch Box

Barbie Lunch Box

Slate Pencils, Box of 5


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