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Title
Grinding the flour, 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
“Haut-Congo. Négresse écrasant le manioc. Opper-Congo. Voorbereiding van het maniokmeel.” A woman with her baby in a sling on her back grinds cassavas to make flour. She crushes the dehydrated plant against a large angled stone. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Postulats des Sœurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d’Afrique, (Sœurs Blanches), Hérent (Br) – Thielt (Fl. Oc). Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O. L.V. , van Afrika . (Witte Zusters) Herent (Br.) – Thielt (W. Vl.). Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 13.5 x 8.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0090.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80954
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0090.jpg
Subject
Food preparation
Women
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0090 [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
image/tiff

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