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Title: Victims of sleeping sickness, 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: “Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission – Nouvelle-Anvers (Congo Belge). Œuvres pour les malades – La maladie du sommeil fait encore bien des victimes au Congo.” Two Missionary sister nurses or doctors treat a group of patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Some look very undernourished. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Les Fransciscaines Missioaires de Marie en Mission – Annales de F.M.M., Fr. 6 -16, Route de Ciamart – Vanves (Seine). There is no handwriting on the back.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0116.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80979
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0116.jpg
Subject: Medical personnel
Medical treatment
Clergy
Hunger
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Source: IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0116 [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
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