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Title
Young catechumens standing outside of a thatch-roofed school building, 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
"DAHOMEY - Adohoun - La Chapelle-Ecole ou le Pere en visite couche et dit la messe et ou 100 jeunes catechumenes viennent au catechisme et en classe de francais." Several dozen young men stand outside of a thatch-roofed building. Another building is visible in the background.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "EDWARD SANDERS, MISSAO INGLEZA, BIE ANGOLA".
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m58537 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0097
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58537
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0097.jpg
Subject
Students
Schools
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Adohoun
Africa
Dahomey
Source
YDS/RG101/011/0000/0097 [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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