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Young girls sitting in a classroom, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Young girls sitting in a classroom, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
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: "Congo Belge Belgische Kongo" "Serie Reeks 7 No 7 Desaix, Bruxelles" "Ecole de filles. Meissjeschool." A group of young girls are seated inside a classroom. A map hangs on the wall above a series of drawings.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m60809 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-023-0000-0131
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m60809
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-023-0000-0131.jpg
Subject: Students
Women
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Congo
Source: YDS/RG101/023/0000/0131 [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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