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Title
Laundry day at the homemaking school, Boma, Congo, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
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
“Missions et Œuvres des Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie. Buanderie et repassage à l’école ménagère de Boma (Congo Belge).”Girls learn washing and ironing at the homemaking school in Boma. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie. Ont actulement en pays de mission 152 maisons avec 129 écoles, plus 430 œuvres pour l’enfance groupant 49,239 enfants. Elles ont en outre pour les malades 45 l’hôpitaux avec 81,476 malades hospitalisés dan l’année, 8 époseries avec 1,627 épreux, 7 lazarets avec 2,178 contagieux et 107 dispensaires ou 2,529,121 soins ont été donnés en 1928. Elles ont aussi 25 hospices et refuges avec 1,516 vielliards et femmes. 33 catéchuménats avec 845 catéchumènes, 83 centres de visites avec 85,830 malades, 19,993 pauvres, 744 prisonniers visités dans l’année. Durant es cours de 1928 elles ont administré 32,834 baptêms ‘in articulo mortis’. Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie, Avenue de Tervluern, 268, Woluwe, Bruxelles.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0024.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80886
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0024.jpg
Subject
Girls
Students
Clergy
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Boma
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0024 [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
image/tiff

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