Monday 22 July 2019

"Knowledge is Power" - Civic education class in Finland in 1910

"Knowledge is power" (Sir Francis Bacon´s famous equation) was the guiding star for this civic education class in Finland in 1910. At the time Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russia, but independence was not far away (1917).
The original photo by amateur photographer Karin Åström - here colorized by me - is in the Svenska Litteratursällskapet collection.

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