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Image / Drawing of a village street with mountains in the distance, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Title
Drawing of a village street with mountains in the distance, 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
The postcard reproduces a drawing of a village street lined with thatch-roofed houses. A few people converse in the streets. In the background, dark mountains rise.
The back of the card has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "MISSIONS des PERES du SAINT-ESPRIT 30, Rue Lhomond, Paris (V arr.) 29 - CAMEROUN Le Pays de Nkongsamba (Peinture murale du Refectoire des P. P. du St-Esprit 30, Rue Lhomond, Paris".
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
drawings
Identifier
impa-m58670 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0052
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58670
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-012-0000-0052.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Clergy
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Cameroon
Source
YDS/RG101/012/0000/0052 [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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