Illiterate posters & prints

Rosie, aged 7, illiterate, working for a second year as an oyster shucker at Varn & Platt Canning Company, Bluffton,... Lewis Wickes Hine

Public letter writer, Mexico CB Waite

Do you help to liquidate illiteracy? 1925 Anonymous

The Ottoman Scribe Antonio de Dominici

Down with Illiteracy! Anonymous

Slaves Celebrating Liberation Anonymous

Poster to the fight against illiteracy, 1918 Alexander Petrovich Apsit

William D. Howells from 'Literature', April 27th 1898 American School

Hugh Henry Brackenridge from 'Cyclopedia of American Literature', by Evert Augustus Duyckinck 1855 American School

Illuminated letters Anonymous

Eisteddfod or Congress of Welsh Literati at Conway Castle: The Town and Castle of Conway Anonymous

Distressing Result of Beaconsfield's Latest Literary Performance Anonymous

Don Dismallo Running the Literary Gantlet Anonymous

Literature class, Blackheath Road Evening Institute, London, 1908 Unknown

Personification of Literature Jean-Honore Fragonard

Literature Underwood & Underwood

Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Clérete, Earl of (1805-1859). French writer and politician Anonymous

Illustration of Man Selling Adulterated Oleomargarine as Pure Butter Anonymous

The Literary Society French School

Muse of Literature, 1893 Henry Siddons Mowbray

William Ewart Gladstone, British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister Anonymous

Chinese Literatus in an Autumn Landscape, late 1400s Josui S?en

Illuminated initial letters Anonymous

Illuminated initial letters Anonymous

Chinese Literatus Viewing a Valley, possibly mid- to late 1500s-1600s Unknown

Knowledge Will Break the Chains of Slavery, poster, 1920. Alexei Radakov

Illuminated initial letters Anonymous

Sketch for 'The Reading of a Will' Dated center, illegible: '1?20' Sir David Wilkie

My husband's last passion? See what the daguerreotype says. Not pretty, a common air, and what awful hands...one wonders what... Paul Gavarni

Illustration Showing Earth and Telstar Communication Satellites Sites Anonymous

Plate D from the 'Disparates': Fools-'or Little Bulls' - folly, ca. 1816-23 Francisco Goya

The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, Bullock's Museum Anonymous

Portrait of the writer and illustrator Marian Ada. Peart, c.1930 Captain J. B. Peart

Aphra Behn (1640-1680), first professional woman writer in English literature B Cole

Illuminated letter 'D' Anonymous

Illustration of Members of the Hymenoptera Order Anonymous