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Title
Hair styles of women, 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
"6 Missiën der Paters Capucijnen. Missions des Pères Capucins. Ubangi (Congo). Congoleesche haartool. Permanente.” A girl wears her hair in short braided strands with beads at the ends. An older woman wears her hair in several coils that wrap around to the back of her head. Both wear necklaces. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: Help de Missiën! – Aidez les Missions. “Postch. 9: Pater Procurator der Missiën. Korte Winkelstraat, 1, Antwerpen. Compte ch. Post No 9. Père Procureur des Missions. Courte rue de la Boutique, 1, Anvers. There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0068.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80930
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0068.jpg
Subject
Girls
Women
Fashion
Jewelry
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0068 [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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