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Photos from Victorian schools

A selection of archival images that represent the history of Victorian schools.

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All photos on this page are in the public domain and may be used freely without permission or attribution.

Students and their school buildings

  • Black and white photograph of students in front of the Camberwell Primary School
  • Teacher and children outside Dartmoor State School timber building in 1901.
  • School children and teacher outside small timber Yeodene Primary School in 1911
  • Black and white photograph of Bealiba Primary School building

  • Camberwell Primary School 1890

    Camberwell Primary School in 1890. Source: State Library of Victoria

  • Golden Point Infant class (an adjunct of Chewton State School) 1895

  • Buninyong Primary School 1900

  • Dartmoor State School 1901

    Dartmoor Primary School building in 1901 when it was called Dartmoor State School. (Source: Dartmoor Primary School)

  • Timor Primary School 1910

  • Yeodene State School 1911

    Yeodene State School in 1911 (Source: Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria)

  • Chelsea Primary School circa 1914

  • Wandin North School 1919

  • Bealiba Primary School 1920s

    Bealiba Primary School building ca. 1920 - 1930. Source: P.W Smith and State Library of Victoria

  • Tecoma Primary School 1921

Students learning

  • Students during class at Castlemaine Primary School in 1921 when it was called Castlemaine State School

  • Murchison Primary School 1906

  • Camberwell Primary School - exercise - circa 1913

  • Gardening at Beaconsfield Primary - 1920s

  • Castlemaine Primary School 1921

    Students during class at Castlemaine Primary School in 1921 when it was called Castlemaine State School

  • Mount Macedon Primary School - first radio circa 1925

Teachers through the years

  • Beechworth Primary Staff circa 1887

  • Essendon Primary School teacher 1889

  • Headmaster - Sunbury State School 1889

  • Buninyong Primary School staff 1896

  • Maldon Primary School staff circa 1905

  • Ascot Vale Primary School staff 1910

  • Yarram Primary School teachers - 1920

  • Cavendish Primary School teachers - 1923

  • Balwyn Primary School staff 1923

Sport and other extra curricular activities

  • Carlton North School Football Team 1884

  • Camberwell Primary Tennis Club 1890

  • Camberwell Primary cadets circa 1895

  • Dana Street (Ballarat) cricket team 1907

  • Beaconsfield School Picnic circa 1918

  • Balwyn Primary Swim Class circa 1920

    Swim class at Glenferrie Baths in 1920 or 1921

  • Balwyn Primary Grade 4 picnic circa 1920

    Picnic at Hampton beach in 1920 or 1921

Record books

  • Archival image: a list of student names in a school's enrolment register from 1914

  • Cover of Camberwell Primary School Pupil Register 1925-1949

  • Page of the Camberwell Primary School Pupil Register 1925-1949

  • Maryborough Technical College enrolment card 1921

  • Open page of Tarranginnie School's pupil register

  • Student enrolment record

    A list of names in a school's student register from 1914

  • Sanford Primary School Inspector's Report Book Cover 1914 to 1925

  • Sanford Primary School Inspectors Report Book page 26 from 1917

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