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Fon man and woman, Benin, ca. 1900-1930

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Title: Fon man and woman, Benin, ca. 1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
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: "DAHOMEY - Type de race Fon." ("Type of the Fon race.") A man and woman seated next to one another pose in front of a patterned curtain. The woman holds a box in her lap
the man holds a hat. Postcard issued by "Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon."
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12622 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12622
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0006.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: (city)
Africa
Benin
Source: YDS/RG101/006/0000/0006 [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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