The image database Pictura Paedagogica - a co-operation between the Library for Research of Educational History (BBF), Berlin and the Institute for Applied Educational Science and General Didactics at the University of Hildesheim, provides access to illustrations from children’s and schoolbooks, bibles and atlases, postcards and magazines of the 15th-20th century.

Woodcuts, copper- and steel-engravings, also photographs can be searched by title, names, subjects or by time chart. In addition to a free working-copy of the picture (an image with a resolution of 75 dpi) it is possible to order a high-quality reproduction.

 

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