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Title
Congregation leaving after Mass, Kinshasa, Congo, 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
Congo- Leopoldville. Sortie de la Grandd' Messe, le dimanche." "(Output from the Grand Mass on Sunday.") A crowd is gathered outside the cathedral. Many of the women are dressed in traditional clothing while the men are wearing white shirts, pants and hats.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the mission agency: "Propriete de 'Missions de Scheut'.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m15014 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-020-0000-0104
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m15014
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-020-0000-0104.jpg
Subject
Churches
Indigenous populations
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo, (Democratic Republic)
Kinshasa
Source
YDS/RG101/020/0000/0104 [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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