Young men and women in the United States are learning skills at vocational schools that will enable them to earn a living upon graduation. Vocational classes, organised by the public school systems in all of the 48 states, have a total enrolment of more than 3,500,000. The programme is aided by the National Vocational Education Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917. Fields of study include agriculture, trade and industrial skills, business and homemaking. Classes are organised on a full day or part-time basis. At some schools there are evening classes for adults. The photograph shows students studying the construction and operation of an electric motor at a vocational school at Duluth, in the midwestern State of Minnesota. The school’s curriculum also includes automobile mechanics, baking, watchmaking, refrigeration, shoemaking, radio maintenance, architecture, and furniture upholstery.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4341, 9 October 1950, Page 9

Young men and women in the United States are learning skills at vocational schools that will enable them to earn a living upon graduation. Vocational classes, organised by the public school systems in all of the 48 states, have a total enrolment of more than 3,500,000. The programme is aided by the National Vocational Education Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917. Fields of study include agriculture, trade and industrial skills, business and homemaking. Classes are organised on a full day or part-time basis. At some schools there are evening classes for adults. The photograph shows students studying the construction and operation of an electric motor at a vocational school at Duluth, in the midwestern State of Minnesota. The school’s curriculum also includes automobile mechanics, baking, watchmaking, refrigeration, shoemaking, radio maintenance, architecture, and furniture upholstery.