Image / Mission women sewing, Japan, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Mission women sewing, Japan, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description: "Collection de L’Œuvre Pontificale de la Sainte-Enfance. 44, Rue de Cherche-Midi. – Paris 6e. Sœurs de Nevers. Osaka– La leçon d’ouvrage manuel." Missionary sisters oversee women at their sewing tasks. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "L’Œuvre Pontificale de la Sainte-Enfance baptize chaque année près de 600.000 petits infidèles. Eile en élève près de Un million. De 1843 à 1930, elle a fait baptizer 25 millions d’enfants et a envoyé aux missions 380 millions de francs." There is no handwriting on the back.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg101-043-0000-0070.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84058
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-043-0000-0070.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Women
Craft workers
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Asia
Japan
Source: IMP/YDS/RG101/043/0000/0070 [File]

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