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Title
Congregation during Mass, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, ca. 1949
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1949
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
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Maryknoll Mission Archives, PO Box 305, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0305
archives@maryknoll.org ; http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1669
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=17
http://maryknollmissionarchives.org/?page_id=1917 ; Maryknoll Mission Archives.
Description
Bird's-eye view of a congregation praying during Mass in a church in Huehuetenango. In this photograph the women and girls kneel on the right side of the church with heads covered. The men and boys kneel on the left. A stone archway and an altar rail separate the congregation from the highly decorated altar.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w
9 x 6.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m64800 [Legacy record ID]
MFB-Guatemala-04-006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64800
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/MFB-Guatemala-04-006.jpg
Subject
Churches
Religious activities
Bird's-eye views
Time Period
circa 1949
Place
Guatemala
Huehuetenango
North and Central America
Source
MFB/Guatemala/04/006 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Maryknoll Mission Archives
Photographs of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Maryknoll, New York, 1912-1945
impa-m338

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