Cuiabá, Brazil - 1894 - On 18 June 129 years ago, a group of Salesians, led by the man who became Bishop Luigi Lasagna, arrived at the port of Cuiabá. They were five young missionaries who soon began their activities in the parish of São Gonçalo do Porto and in September the same year founded the Salesian School of Arts and Trades. The following year, in 1895, they bought a farm near what is now Prainha Avenue, where the Salesian São Gonçalo school was built. These five young missionaries thus brought Don Bosco's dream to the state of Mato Grosso.

Granada, Nicaragua – 1926 – This old photograph dated 1926 portrays band members, each with their own instrument, from the school which was named at the time after Venerable John Bosco in the city of Granada. The photo is available on the Central America Salesian Bulletin's Flickr page.

Semide, Portugal - This photograph contains a record of the visit of Fr Renato Ziggiotti, then serving as General School Councilor, and Fr Hermenegildo Carrà, then Superior of the Salesians in Portugal, to the Salesian agricultural school in Semide. The Salesians directed this work between 1938 and 1947.