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Title
Making print cloth, Ghana, ca.1885-1895
Creator
Ramseyer, Friedrich August
Date Created and/or Issued
1885/1895
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 06588
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
A man is shown on a village street before a large piece of white material that he is stamping with various designs. The cloth will be used for robes worn durning mourning. A finished piece of material is seen hanging on the side of a building nearby.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12 cm x 16 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg044-0001-0078.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82785
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg044-0001-0078.jpg
Subject
Craft workers
Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period
1885/1895
Place
Africa
Ghana
Source
IMP/YDS/RG044/0001/0078 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
image/tiff
impa-m980

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