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Title
Missionary sisters in a boat with a city in the background, Egypt, ca. 1900-1930
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
"ZIFTE (Egypte) - Depart pour les excursions apostoliques." ("Departure for the apostolic excursions.") Six missionary sisters are riding in a boat with one indigenous woman wearing black. The boat has two large oars and a mast. On the distant shore many large buildings are visible. Postcard issued by the "Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Apotres - VENISSIEUX (Rhone)."
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9.25 x 13.75 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12670 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0041
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12670
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0041.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Inland water transport
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
(city)
Africa
Egypt
Source
YDS/RG101/006/0000/0041 [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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