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English transcription: Puno Fundamental Education Project of UNESCO. Here, making adobe bricks (mud bricks).
French transcription: Projet d'éducation de base de l'UNESCO de Puno. Ici, fabrication d'adobes (briques crues).
Description: With rolled up trousers and bare feet, a man is tamping mud and straw into a rectangular timber frame. Right in front and beside him lay perfectly moulded bricks in rows. At the back there is a wall of piled-up dried bricks.

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English transcription: UNESCO Technical Assistance - Andina Mission. Shown here is a class for leaders, campesinos or managers of agricultural and rural enterprises.
French transcription: Assistance technique de l'UNESCO - Mission andine. Cours de formation de chefs d'exploitations rurales.
Description: Dans une cour extérieure, des hommes sont assis à des bureaux. Ils lèvent la main pour répondre à une question. Derrière eux, on aperçoit des montagnes et un bâtiment.

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English transcription: UNESCO technical assistance mission to the inhabitants of the Bolivian Andes. Class for 'leaders campesinos', (heads of rural enterprises), who are taught the Spanish language and methods of operation.
French transcription: Mission andine (Assistance Technique de l'UNESCO) Cours de 'leaders campesinos,' c'est-à-dire formation de chefs d'exploitations rurales. Castillanisation.
Description: Adult men seated outside in pairs at school desks.

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English transcription: A rural primary school.
French transcription: Ecole rurale primaire.
Description: A classroom wall, upon which is pinned and clipped a long white sheet of paper, inscribed with four-letter words intended to facilitate the learning of reading skills. A teacher is pointing to the word "cabo" for the attention of a young girl.

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English transcription: Oriental Art Exhibition organized at Buenos-Aires on Human Rights Day, by the National Commission, the Anna M. Berry Pro-United Nations Association and the National Museum of Fine Arts.
French transcription: Exposition d'Art Oriental organisée à Buenos-Aires à l'occasion de la journée des Droits de l'Homme, par la Commission Nationale, l'Association Pro-Nations Unies Anna M. Berry et le Musée National des Beaux-Arts.
Description: Une femme vêtue de noir regarde curieusement la tête penchée une statue ancienne de l’exposition. On dirait qu’elle cherche à savoir ce qu’est cette statue.
Location: Buenos Aires

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English transcription: Navarino Island (Lat. 55° S.). Puerto Williams antarctic beeches bowed by the west wind.
French transcription: Île de Navarino (Lat. 55° S.), Puerto Williams hêtres antarctiques inclinés par le vent d'ouest.
Description: A clump of windswept trees stand in the middle of a field surrounded by smaller windswept bushes and trees.
Location: Tierra del Fuego ; Navarino Island.

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