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Title
Outdoor church service, Togo, ca. 1950-1960
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1950/1960
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
Two missionary fathers and a group of participants are standing and sitting outside for the service that is underway. One man is holding a wooden cross, and a boy is holding a folder with papers in front of the missionary father.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains a caption: "de la part de: qui se tiendra a la Vente, les et se fera un plaisir de vous remercier de votre visite. Envoyez les objets que vous destinez a la vente a (Please bring the objects you intend to sell to): Journees D'Amitie 7, rue Marie-Rose- 75014 Paris." "Les offrandes (offerings): C.C.P. Mission du Togo, Paris 15.691-78 J Cheques bancaires: Missions franciscaines - Togo a Paris." "Pour vous rendre au Couvent des Franciscains, (To go to the Convent of the Franciscans) 7, rue Marie-Rose, a Paris, (14e): Metro: Direction Porte d'Orleans, station Alesia. Autobus: 28,38,62,68, arret Alesia. P.C. et tous les autres autobus desservant la Porte d'Orleans, arret Porte d'Orleans." The back of the postcard also includes a street map to Rue Marie-Rose.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 15 x 10.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13930 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0004
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13930
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0004.jpg
Subject
Churches
Religious practice
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1950/1960
Place
Africa
Togo
Source
YDS/RG101/018/0000/0004 [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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