Image / Missionary sisters and girls in front of a boarding school, Congo, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Missionary sisters and girls in front of a boarding school, Congo, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
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: "No. 7 Haut Congo Belge - Belgisch Opper Congo -- Internat des mulatresses. - Internaat van mulattinnen." ("No. 7 Upper Belgian Congo - Boarding school of the mulattos.") Four missionary sisters and over forty girls dressed in white pose in front of a two-story brick building.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Congregation des Filles de la Croix de Liege - Congregatie der Dochters van het Kruis te Luik -- Maison-mere, Moederhuis: rue Hors-Chateau, 49. - Mission du Haut-Congo belge. - Missie van den Belgischen Opper-Congo." ("Congregation of the Girls of the Cross of Liege - -- Head office: rue Hors-Chateau, 49. - Mission of Belgian Upper-Congo." )
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13004 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0065
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13004
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0065.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Schools
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source: YDS/RG101/008/0000/0065 [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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