Image / Clergy celebrating Mass in tent, Kakyelo, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Clergy celebrating Mass in tent, Kakyelo, 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: A male clergy celebrates Mass beneath a tent as the congregation sits on the ground facing the tent.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the mission agency: "Oeuvres de Don Bosco. Préf. Apost. Luapula Supérieur (Congo belge). Procure: Compte chèques 2719.01 - Werk van Don Bosco. Apost. Pref. van Boven-Luapula (Belg. Kongo)" The back of the postcard also includes the caption: "10. Mgr Sak disant la Ste Messe sous la tente. 10. Mgr leest de H. Mis onder de tent." ("Mgr reads H. Mass under the tent")
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 13.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m57122 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-021-0000-0102
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m57122
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-021-0000-0102.jpg
Subject: Religious practice
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source: YDS/RG101/021/0000/0102 [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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