Image / Missionary father performing Mass amid kneeling villagers, Angola, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Missionary father performing Mass amid kneeling villagers, Angola, 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: Une messe au village (Vic.-Apost. Du Loango) : Ceux pour qui il faut travailler!" A Catholic missionary father stands beside a cloth-draped altar, beneath a shed roof supported by poles. Around him, villagers kneel facing the altar.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the bottom of the postcard is "L'Oeuvre Apostolique, 108, rue de Vaugirard, Paris (VIc), a pour but de fournir aux Missionnaires tout ce qui leur est necessaire pour leur Apostolat. Adresser les offrandes par le compte de chques postaux de Mgr BOUCHER, PARIS 378-58.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58531 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0091
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58531
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0091.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Religious practice
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Angola
Source: YDS/RG101/011/0000/0091 [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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