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Title: Village greeting a missionary, Cameroon, 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: "En Brousse: Arrivee triomphale du Missionnaire au Village" ("In Bush: Triumphal arrival of the Missionary at the Village "). Men, women, and children are gathered in front of a large structure with a thatched roof. A missionary father dressed in white stands among them. Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin.
The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes"The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12312 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0042
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12312
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0042.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Cameroon
Source: YDS/RG101/004/0000/0042 [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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