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Title
Clergy and women gathering oranges, Kasai, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unidentified
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
Merode-Salvator- Appelsienenoogst. Cueillette d'oranges." ("Picking oranges.") A group of women and children are outside, some carrying baskets of oranges on their heads. Three missionary sisters are outside with the group, and one is seated by a table with fruit on top of it. There are also baskets of fruit on the ground.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "Zusters van den H. Jozef, Zilverstraat, Brugge- Missien in Kasai, Congo." "Soeurs de St. Joseph, rue d'Argent, Bruges- Missions au Kasai, Congo." The back of the postcard also contains information about the printer: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14566 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-020-0000-0045
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14566
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-020-0000-0045.jpg
Subject
Women
Clergy
Fruit
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kasai
Source
YDS/RG101/020/0000/0045 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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