Teacher standing beside ant mound, Central African Republic, ca. 1910

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Title: Teacher standing beside ant mound, Central African Republic, ca. 1910
Published / Created: 1910
Publication Place: Central African Republic, Africa
Description: A hand-tinted postcard depicts a teacher holding a stick standing before a very large ant mound.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "Universities' Mission to Central Africa, 9. Dartmouth Street, Westminster. Ant Hill and African Teacher. There are over 400 African tachers in the Universities Mission, who, after training, are put in charge of village schools under the superintendence of an English Missionary. Their wages are about 10s a month. Over 13,000 children were attending school in 1910.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 12

Access: Public
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