Pretty Alphabetizer Teaches Peasant

Pretty Alphabetizer Teaches Peasant

Photograph

Bob Henriques

Maker
American, 1930–2011

Pretty Alphabetizer Teaches Peasant

Project "Alfabetiza" - Castro's Crash Program


1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 7/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.4 × 23.7 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0039
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Cuba) 8/61 (10) : PRETTY ALPHABETIZER TEACHES PEASANT: 15 year-old Arelia \ Rodrigues was sent by Castro to the province of Aguacato to \ make Leonardo Marruro a literate Cuban citizen. When she \ has taught him the elementary rules of reading and writing, \ she will move on to another campesino's house. \ Credit: BOB HENRIQUES © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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