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Title: Leprous women gathered in the church, Ambohipiantrana, Madagascar, 1901
Creator: Einrem, Johannes
Date Created and/or Issued: 1901
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: Misjonsmarka 12, NO-4024 Stavanger, Norway
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
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Description: "Spedalske kvinners lappeforening" ("Leprous womens patchwork group"). This is from one of the village churches in one of the four "towns" at Ambohpiantrana. The main church was larger and was built in 1901. These women are gathered in the church together with deaconesses Sina Loeken and Juliane Berg. Sina Loeken was a missionary in Madagascar from 1900-1934. Juliane Berg was a missionary in Madagascar from 1898-1929.
Type: image
Format: photographic prints. 12 x 17 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m3056 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-NMS-A13-575
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3056
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-NMS-A13-575.jpg
Subject: Leprosy
Churches
Norwegian Missionary Society
Loeken, Sina, 1868-1938
Berg, Juliane, 1870-1929
Women
Time Period: 1901
Place: Africa
Antsirabe
Madagascar
Source: NMS/Photo/A13Ma/575 [File]
Relation: A13Ma by Einrem, Johannes, 1868-1956
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University
Photographs of the Mission and Diakonia Archives, VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway, ca.1870-1950
impa-m559

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