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Title
Women working in a rice paddy, Madagascar, ca.1900-1930
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
In the foreground, twelve women are crouched down tending to rice plants. In the background many other women can be seen working in the wide expanse of the rice paddy.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "12. MADAGASCAR - Le Repiquage du Riz" ("Replanting the rice"). The back also contains printed information about the mission agency: "Pour &lt
&lt
l'OEuvre des Pretres Malgaches&gt
&gt
- 79, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris XVe. Ch. post. 567-39 Paris".
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12478 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0050
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12478
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0050.jpg
Subject
Women
Agriculture
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
YDS/RG101/005/0000/0050 [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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