Image / Missionary sisters in a boat on Lake Tanganyika, Mpala, Congo, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Missionary sisters in a boat on Lake Tanganyika, Mpala, Congo, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
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: Opper-Congo - Op het Tanganikameer. Van Boudewijnstand naar Mpala. -- Haut-Congo - Sur le Tanganika - De Baudouinville a Mpala." ("Upper-Congo - On Lake Tanganyika - Of Baudouinville at Mpala.") Two missionary sisters sit in the front of a long boat while eight indigenous men row the boat and another operates a rudder at the rear. In the distance a larger boat with a mast is visible.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the publisher: "Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O.L.V. van Afrika. - (Witte Zusters) HERENT (Br.) - THIELT (W. Vl.)." The back also contains information about the printer: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12996 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0057
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12996
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0057.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Inland water transport
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mpala
Source: YDS/RG101/008/0000/0057 [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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