Description
Side A, clockwise: Photo 1: Miss Lowe with Hindu School: A group photograph of seated little girls, a few sari clad young women, some men in the background and one missionary woman, standing in front of a building, not fully visible. Photo 2: Bapatla Hindu Girls’ School: a group of older girls being guided in some outside activity by a male teacher – could it be an archery or catapault class? [ I have never seen something like this in any other depiction of a school or classroom setting]. Photo 3: Another group of girl students in an outdoor setting. All of them carry a book each in hand. In the background we can see a male teacher. In the foreground a desk and a stool. Photo 4: Another outdoor group photograph with school girls seated; there is a male teacher whose image is blurred; he is carrying an abacus in hand. Behind the group there are two women, probably assistant teachers. The girls are carrying books in their hands. (A general caption under photographs 3 and 4 identify the images as Bapattla School. Since the earlier photographs have been identified as Bapattla Hindu School, these must also be from the same context). — Side B, clockwise [All captions written in pencil under the photographs]: Photo 1: Pulmoni Teaching: Depicts a woman – probably either a local Christian teacher or a Bible woman – seated, and reading from her book. In front of her, between two huts, there is a large group of men, women, and children. They are listening to the woman. Photo 2: Two women seated outside a hut that is partially visible. Both are clad in white saris. The photograph identifies them as ‘2 Old Guntur Widows’. Photo 3: Sarah with Old Zenana Pupil: Photo depicts two women clad in white saris in the forefront. One must be the old pupil, probably a widow (because she is wearing white) and the other woman, also in white, could be the Bible women. We can see two other women in the background and a girl peeping from behind one of those women. This is an outdoor scene. The old pupil is seated on a low wooden cot.
Sponsorship
This material was digitized as part of the In Her Own Right project, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
