Image / Missionary sisters with seated missionary father, Benin, ca.1930

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Title: Missionary sisters with seated missionary father, Benin, ca.1930
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 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: "Petites Servantes du Sacre-Coeur, Missionaires Catechistes des Noirs - MENTON (A.-M.)" "Auxiliares des peres des Missions Africaines, 150, cours Gambetta, LYON 10, COTONOU (5 juillet 1930) - Au fond, le mur de l'eglise eu construction". Three white-robed Catholic missionary sisters stand behind a seated black-robed missionary father. A stone building's wall is visible in the background.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. A small stamp reads "Collection J F M". At the edge of the correspondence section is printed "Phototypie LESCUYER, 15, r. Remparts-d'Ainay, Lyon".
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58540 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0100
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58540
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0100.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Women
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1930
Place: Africa
Cotonou
Dahomey
Source: YDS/RG101/011/0000/0100 [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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