Image / Catholic school children standing with sign, Benin, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Catholic school children standing with sign, Benin, 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: "SOCIETE DES MISSIONS AFRICAINES" "L'Afrique en marche - Au Dahomey [Benin], a la Cote d'Ivoire, des milliers et des milliers d'enfants noirs... semblables a ceux-ci, frequentent actuellement nos ecoles catholiques." "150. Cours Gambetta - LYON". Many children stand assembled, holding up a sign with lettering too faint to be read.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. At the edge of the correspondence section is printed "PETIT SEMINAIRE DES MISSIONS AFRICAINES Pont-Rosseau (Loire-Infer.)" "Helio-Lorraine - Nancy".
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58587 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0135
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58587
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0135.jpg
Subject: Students
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Dahomey
Source: YDS/RG101/011/0000/0135 [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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