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Title
Missionary sister weighing infant on a scale, 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
"Mission des Filles de Marie de Pesches Bas-Congo." "Consultation des nourrisons." A Catholic missionary sister weighs an infant on a scale set upon a table outdoors. A crowd of others are gathered close, and a thatch-roofed building is visible in the background.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64178 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-024-0000-0138
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64178
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-024-0000-0138.jpg
Subject
Medical personnel
Children
Clergy
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source
YDS/RG101/024/0000/0138 [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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