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Title
Missionary sisters visiting a family, Rwanda, 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
"Ruanda- Issavi- Soeurs en excursion. Apostolisch tochtje." Four missionary sisters are posed outside of a grass hut with a group of villagers. Two of the missionary sisters are holding umbrellas.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the publisher: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles." The back also contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "Postulats des Soeurs Missionaires de N.-D. d'Afrique. (Soeurs Blanches du Cardinal Lavigerie) Herent (Br.)- Thielt (Fl. Oc.). Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O.L.V. van Afrika. (Witte Zusters van Karinaal Lavigerie) Herent (Br.)- Thielt (W.Vl.).
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13849 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-016-0000-0083
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13849
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-016-0000-0083.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Housing
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Rwanda
Source
YDS/RG101/016/0000/0083 [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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