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Title
Nap time at the mission, Japan, 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
"Les Fransicaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission – Biwasaki (Japon). Les Œuvres ppour la Jeunesse – La sieste des tout-petits." Babies and young children are shown napping in the mission nursery while two women watch over them. Two small tents are seen in the background. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "Les Fransicaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission ont actuellement en pays de Mission 145 maisons avec 156 ècoles, plus 389 œuvres pour l’enfance groupant 56.000 enfants. Ells ont en outré pour les maladies 47 hôpitaux avec 71.000 malades hospitalisés dans l’année, 7 léproseries avec 1m507 lépreux, 7 lazarets avec 1.873 contagieux et 107 dispensaires où 100.000 soins ont été donnés en 1926. Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie 7, Impasse Reille, Paris XIVe." There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg101-043-0000-0100.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84087
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-043-0000-0100.jpg
Subject
Abandoned children
Women
Missionary work
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Asia
Japan
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/043/0000/0100 [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
impa-m980

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