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John W. Hanson Photo Album, 1960 - 1970

 File — Box: 5

Scope and Contents

Contains 46 Photographs in a bound photo album titled “Pictures from Educational Survey”. The captions are directly verbatim:

1. Interior of a very neat mud and thatch school in Calabar province. Small RCM rural School Youngers clothes on desks because they were out for physical training. 2. Schoolboy on way to school in Abakaliki area, carrying rock on head as this was the day they put in hours of work on school ‘compound’. Required to bring rock to school. 3. Infant class in a U.P.E. new school in Abakaliki province. 4. Excellent untrained teacher in Standard 1 of U.P.E. (Universal Primary Education School). This boy had only standard 6 education himself. 5. Infant class outside in Methodist school, Affiam. 6. Researcher with faculty at rural RCM school, Calabar. They had furnished the beer and it wasn’t as much as it looks like here. 7. Student researchers and full staff of St. Peters, RCM. 8. Infant class outside at Methodist School, Affiam. 9. Rural science class in UPE school. 10. Standard 2 boys in UPE school 11. Untrained teacher in UPE school. Note seats. 12. Student researches (standing, left), with infant class 13. Professor Eyo Ita, educational pioneer and former head of Eastern Nigeria Government. 14. Small pre-school in class, with pupils doing compound cleaning before school. 15. Three typical schoolboys on way to school. Book boxes. 16. Handwork period in a Methodist school where there was really some instruction in Handicrafts being given. Idoma area. 17. Typical new type school 18. Typical old type school 19. Teacher and class in a small RCM Junior Primary school, Idoma Region. 20. Student guide who led me four miles into a backwoods school. 21. Intrepid explorer, Rivers province. 22. Youngster intent on Handwork; others more observant ‘getting into the picture’. 23. Jux-Jux shrine on path to Methodist school, Idoma division. 24. Kids. 25. Two student researchers following youngsters on four mile trek to school 26. Inside a thatched roofed school. 27. Teachers quarters, rural school. Idoma division. 28. School children getting into picture before same quarters. 29. School children in Methodist Preschool. Benches in this little mud school were mud mounds raised on the floor. Untrained teacher. Chap on right is involved in keeping up school grounds. 30. Teachers quarters, Idoma division. Teachers usually have such houses on or near school compound. 31. A safari of school children we picked up, or who picked us up, on way out from one remote school. We got a lot of free porters. 32. Two student researchers (Onwumere and Chukwurah) resting on a palavar bench and surrounded by porters and onlookers on way out form remote school. Exhausted? 33. Eminent researcher with pre-school class and their slates – about all of the school equipment they had. 34. Pleasant, new small school. 35. Small pre-school in which children pictured above. Note how in older buildings the thatched roof overhangs the walls, admitting almost no light. One really stoops to enter here! 36. Inside classroom in a small Methodist senior primary school in remote area. Trained teacher. 37. Compound work. It makes up a large part of the school week. 38. American sisters doing a fine job in Abakaliki and Agoja areas – Holy Child. 39. Term examinations, infant class, oral exam. (Ibo) 40. Young ladies are relatively scarce in many areas – including this one. 41. Research expert with young man in practical rural science. UPE school. 42. School class in a rural junior primary school. 43. Young expert in rural science. Abakaliki province. 44. Ckukwurah, Hanson, Onwumere. Two student researchers. 45. Same young teacher, untrained, who did such a fine job. Note blackboard. 46. Class (Standard 1) in new universal primary education school building.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1960 - 1970

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 8 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository

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