The Newspaper That "Breeds" Readers: Illiteracy is a major obstacle to the countries of Latin America on the path to overall cultural and economic progress and forms a barrier to the development of the newspaper industry. A demand for general education is perceived as an urgent necessity in all countries. Governments are using funds wherever available to fight against illiteracy. Private companies as well as international organizations are also providing aid to the governments and local communities of Latin America. In Colombia, the number of adults who can neither read nor write is estimated at around 40%. The percentage of illiterate people here, as in all other countries, is very high, especially among the rural population. Despite their mass illiteracy, the large masses show an increasing hunger for education. Lectures and documentari

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The Newspaper That "Breeds" Readers: Illiteracy is a major obstacle to the countries of Latin America on the path to overall cultural and economic progress and forms a barrier to the development of the newspaper industry. A demand for general education is perceived as an urgent necessity in all countries. Governments are using funds wherever available to fight against illiteracy. Private companies as well as international organizations are also providing aid to the governments and local communities of Latin America. In Colombia, the number of adults who can neither read nor write is estimated at around 40%. The percentage of illiterate people here, as in all other countries, is very high, especially among the rural population. Despite their mass illiteracy, the large masses show an increasing hunger for education. Lectures and documentari
The Newspaper That "Breeds" Readers: Illiteracy is a major obstacle to the countries of Latin America on the path to overall cultural and economic progress and forms a barrier to the development of the newspaper industry. A demand for general education is perceived as an urgent necessity in all countries. Governments are using funds wherever available to fight against illiteracy. Private companies as well as international organizations are also providing aid to the governments and local communities of Latin America. In Colombia, the number of adults who can neither read nor write is estimated at around 40%. The percentage of illiterate people here, as in all other countries, is very high, especially among the rural population. Despite their mass illiteracy, the large masses show an increasing hunger for education. Lectures and documentari
Artist/Maker (French-Swiss, born Hungary, 1906 – 2003)
Date1961
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/16 × 11 5/8 in. (23.4 × 29.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.23
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Markings Verso, middle, (stamp): "ALMASY"
Inscribed Verso, bottom left, (pencil): "PAL-1093.3"
Verso, bottom right (pencil): "2025.30.23"
Verso, middle bottom right (pencil): "Colonbie (unclear, probably Colombia)"
Verso, bottom, middle (pencil): 1
The Newspaper That "Breeds" Readers: Illiteracy is a major obstacle to the countries of Latin America on the path to overall cultural and economic progress and forms a barrier to the development of the newspaper industry. A demand for general education is perceived as an urgent necessity in all countries. Governments are using funds wherever available to fight against illiteracy. Private companies as well as international organizations are also providing aid to the governments and local communities of Latin America. In Colombia, the number of adults who can neither read nor write is estimated at around 40%. The percentage of illiterate people here, as in all other countries, is very high, especially among the rural population. Despite their mass illiteracy, the large masses show an increasing hunger for education. Lectures and document...
The Newspaper That "Breeds" Readers: Illiteracy is a major obstacle to the countries of Latin America on the path to overall cultural and economic progress and forms a barrier to the development of the newspaper industry. A demand for general education is perceived as an urgent necessity in all countries. Governments are using funds wherever available to fight against illiteracy. Private companies as well as international organizations are also providing aid to the governments and local communities of Latin America. In Colombia, the number of adults who can neither read nor write is estimated at around 40%. The percentage of illiterate people here, as in all other countries, is very high, especially among the rural population. Despite their mass illiteracy, the large masses show an increasing hunger for education. Lectures and document...
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.25
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Guatemala - Rural health: The villager meets 20th Century: San Jorge (Guatemala) with its 800 inhabitants is a village like 10,000 others in Latin America (65% of the population is rural in Central America, 58% in South America). From the health point of view, rural populations present a complex problem and in most countries rural health services are only now taking root, San Jorge.
Paul Almásy
Date: 1960-1969
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.168
Ici Lima --The first specialized TV school opened in the Peruvian capital: there are schools for everything in the world and as human knowledge expands, new schools open their doors. Each step of progress generates another, education is the driving force of modern civilization. Television, one of the most attractive inventions of the century, is still in its infancy. The future holds extraordinary possibilities for it, and in all countries we are trying to speed up the training of specialists. Peru deserves the credit for having created the first TV school. The program covers everything related to television, from the construction of a receiver to the production of a program. The courses last two years and the number of students is currently limited to 30. The school director is a TV technician, Isaac Aquise Chavez who is assisted by...
Ici Lima --The first specialized TV school opened in the Peruvian capital: there are schools for everything in the world and as human knowledge expands, new schools open their doors. Each step of progress generates another, education is the driving force of modern civilization. Television, one of the most attractive inventions of the century, is still in its infancy. The future holds extraordinary possibilities for it, and in all countries we are trying to speed up the training of specialists. Peru deserves the credit for having created the first TV school. The program covers everything related to television, from the construction of a receiver to the production of a program. The courses last two years and the number of students is currently limited to 30. The school director is a TV technician, Isaac Aquise Chavez who is assisted by...
Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.26
Maria Luisa Learns and Teaches: Despite the tremendous development of tourism over the past ten years, despite the experiences and impressions of millions of people who visit foreign countries and sometimes foreign continents every year as tourists, students, for business, scholars or journalists are our knowledge of everyday life of people living in distant countries is still poor. Could the traveler who sees the mountains of wonderful vegetables on the market of a large South American city imagine vegetable growers who do not know how to prepare carrots, peas or spinach; six-headed families who own a large house but only a drinking glass, because no one has ever drawn their attention to the harmful effects of health when six people drink from the same glass at meal time; women who don't know how to cook rice, etc... There are countle...
Maria Luisa Learns and Teaches: Despite the tremendous development of tourism over the past ten years, despite the experiences and impressions of millions of people who visit foreign countries and sometimes foreign continents every year as tourists, students, for business, scholars or journalists are our knowledge of everyday life of people living in distant countries is still poor. Could the traveler who sees the mountains of wonderful vegetables on the market of a large South American city imagine vegetable growers who do not know how to prepare carrots, peas or spinach; six-headed families who own a large house but only a drinking glass, because no one has ever drawn their attention to the harmful effects of health when six people drink from the same glass at meal time; women who don't know how to cook rice, etc... There are countle...
Paul Almásy
Date: 1961
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.29
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.84
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.95
Walesa backs the Warsaw Strikers: the Solidarity Union has organized a warning strike lasting four hours in protest against the government's stalling in the discussion of claims. The strike was observed by ten million Polish workers. With Lech Walesa giving a speech
Walesa backs the Warsaw Strikers: the Solidarity Union has organized a warning strike lasting four hours in protest against the government's stalling in the discussion of claims. The strike was observed by ten million Polish workers. With Lech Walesa giving a speech
Michel Philippot
Date: March 27, 1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.120
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Preventive Detention: Cambodians suspected of working with the North Vietnamese or pro-Sihanouk forces are being held behind barbed wire at Kompong Taches, 45 miles north of Pnompenh. The town is along Route 5, the country's vital rice road to the northwest. Government forces are trying to retake the road from the Communists who hold it
Unknown artist
Date: October 17, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.183
Mother bathing her infant, Latin America, 1950s
Mother bathing her infant, Latin America, 1950s
Paul Almásy
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.54
Peru - background: Health and progress. Health and Progress is the central theme of a special issue of World Health devoted to Latin America. Its shows the mutual dependence of the various components of well-being, in which health as a social service is included. It also stresses that only harmonious planned development can bring about progress. Improvement and modernization of working conditions make a better life, better health and a higher yield. Clearing the jungle in Lorato Province
Peru - background: Health and progress. Health and Progress is the central theme of a special issue of World Health devoted to Latin America. Its shows the mutual dependence of the various components of well-being, in which health as a social service is included. It also stresses that only harmonious planned development can bring about progress. Improvement and modernization of working conditions make a better life, better health and a higher yield. Clearing the jungle in Lorato Province
Paul Almásy
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.171
All the old dances of the country are evoked in any role and even the quadrille of the lancers, Haute-Maurienne, France
All the old dances of the country are evoked in any role and even the quadrille of the lancers, Haute-Maurienne, France
Denise Bellon
Date: 1941
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.24
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
North Vietnam Congress: This radiophoto form Hanoi, North Vietnam, was monitored in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, bearing this information: "In an atmosphere stirring with victories over the U.S. aggressors in both North and South Vietnam, the All-North Vietnam Congress of Heroes, model fighters in opposing U.S. aggression and saying the country, was convened in Hanoi. Premier Pham Van Dong was in cordial contact with the heroes."
Unknown artist
Date: January 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.189