Learning the First of the Three "Rs"
Photograph
Learning the First of the Three "Rs"
Project "Alfabetiza" - Castro's Crash Program
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 6 1/4 in. (23.9 × 15.9 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0038
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso RC: PROJECT "ALPHABETIZA" - CASTRO'S CRASH PROGRAM \ (Cuba) 8/61 (9): LEARNING THE FIRST OF THE THREE "RS", 39 year-old Leonardo \ Marruro writes for the first time in his life. A peasant \ or "compesino," [sic] his ambition is to be a pilot. \ Credit: BOB HENRIQUES © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
