HIST 391 Children of Empire: A Transnational History of Boarding Schools

User icon Heather Dray
11 December 2023
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Primary and secondary source material on mission and secular boarding schools.


USC: University of Southern California English

"The girls work started some years ago in Laundry work. After a little while the fathers began to realise that the hearts of the girls were being turned, and that …


USC: University of Southern California · 1930 English

"L'internat de jeunes filles de Khovo" ("Boarding school for girls in Khovo") "1930" Photograph of African girls from the boarding school of Khovo. They wear dresses and headscarves. They sit …


USC: University of Southern California · 1967 English

Portrait of the teachers of a boarding schools in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The teachers are gathered for a training period. Photography published in the Journal des Missions, november-december 1967, p.254.


USC: University of Southern California English

Girls who are pupils in the school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Lambarene. The boarding school is in the background.