Sunrise Institute for the Blind, Lahore, Pakistan

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2009.24.16.940-948

Description: BW prints; .940: Caucasian woman in a floral print dress leads a group of small Pakistani boys by hand up a curving brick paved path; stacks of squared off logs stretch off in the background; a sign at right beside a brick pillar reads "Sunrise Institute for the Blind"; captioned "Kim Fyson + children by main road. Our gate is behind us on the right, past the timber stacked by unauthorized person. Sir Gunga Ram's name is in the white stone in the pillar. Pakistan 1959"; 5 x 7.25"; .941: Two men in white pants and tunics among a flower garden; brick institutional buildings in background; captioned "Adult workers outside their block. Pakistan, 1959"; 3 x 3.625" .942: Two men walk in a courtyard in an angle formed by two two-story brick buildings; awnings have been drawn up on the first floor of the buildings, revealing students sitting on the covered porches; captioned "Inside children's block from Kim F.'s verandah. Volunteer Siddiq + Merajuddin behind. Pakistan, 1959"; 3 x 3.625" .943: Five Pakistani girls standing in front of brock building, smiling for camera; two smiling women in saris sit on a rug, flanking the girls; captioned "5 blind girls standing. House-mother L. Kindergarten teacher R.--sitting. Pakistan, 1959"; 3 x 3.625" .944: Three men stand side by side in a bright sun with a brick building and tree branches behind them; the flanking men wear light pants and long shirts untucked and dark glasses; the central man wears pleated trousers and a tucked collared shirt; captioned "Blind teachers L. to R. Merajuddin, arithmetic, general K., grammar; Walter, music, Eng + Urdu, Brl.; Bashier, Handicrafts. Pakistan, 1959"; 3 x 3.625" .945: Pakistani boys and girls, gathered around a teacher sitting in a chair in the middle; the students are intently caning stool seats and larger mattress supports; a pair of adult women, possibly visitors, stand in background leaning against table with raw materials; 3.5 x 5.125"; .946: Same pair of women from .945 stand on a dirt path that runs along a stretch of brick school buildings; in the left foregound two people are filling something from a large tin cannister; other children and adults walk along the path in the background and a tree fills the right border of the picture; 3.5 x 5.125"; .947: Two men in loose clothing stand in a vegetable garden; brick buildings are in the background; 3.5 x 5.125"; .948: Classroom with desks and tables drawn into three groupings where Pakistani boys and girls sit, with a teacher standing in the middle of the room; in front, a young woman reads from a braille page while four boys write braille with slate and styluses; the younger children in the back two groups listen to their teachers; 3.5 x 5.125".

Medium: Photographic Paper

Date: ca. 1959

Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24