Accession Number: 2009.24.16.512-521
Description: .512: BW picture postcard; three African boys stand holding two bowls each; brush and a dirt field fill the background; captioned Boys with basins and plates ready for food"; 3.5 x 5.5"; .513: BW picture postcard; three African children in white uniforms crouch, weaving broad shallow baskets; 3.5 x 5"; .514: BW print; thin African boy in ragged garment stands in front of a whitewashed stone wall; captioned "One of our first pupils. This boy is now reading English Braille 1st Grade & newly Grade 2. He is learning to 'touch type' on an ordinary typewriter. 1950"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .515: BW print; three young African men weaving large round baskets; captioned "Boys making native corn bins"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .516: BW print; two African boys stringing strips of bark onto cords suspended from two small trees; white buildings in the background; captioned "The building with the windows is our School. The small wall on the left is the wall of the hostel being built. The boys are making baskets from the bark of a tree. The boy on the right is the boy in the photo 'one of our first boys.' Buigiri 1952"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .517: BW print; African man on right sits at small table writing braille on Stainsby-Wayne Braillewriter; Causasian man sits at left; captioned "Our lead teacher Paulo Milangasi + Caftain F. Varley. Paulo is using a Stainsby Machine and is getting ready to make notes as he was going out preaching in the villages. 1952"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .518: BW print; stone building with tin gable roof; captioned "A hostel we built in 1951 to accomodate 20 boys at Buigiri"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .519: BW print: African boy sits on stool in front of wooden door, weaving a large oval mat; captioned "Mat Making 1952"; 3.375 x 2.375"; .520: BW print: young African man holdig a bundle wrapped in paper and tied with string; dirt field and low brush in background; captioned "This boy was taught in our school then read for 4 years with sighted boys in Standard 5 to 8. Now he is reading with sighted boys in a secondary school. He is the only blind boy in Tangayika reading in a Secondary Scholl with sighted boys"; 3 x 4.375"; .521: BW print: four African boys sit in front of a concrete block building, weaving mats; 3 x 4.375".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: ca. 1952
History/Provenance: In Tanzania, the first school for children with disabilities, the Wilson Carlile School for Blind Boys (now Buigiri School) in Dodoma Region, was established on 30 April 1950, by the Church Army, under the aegis of the Anglican Church when the British were still administering Tanganyika.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Africa Basket making Braillewriters Eating & drinking Education of disabled persons Schools for the blind and visually impaired Tanzania Typewriting Vocational education Weaving
