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Title
House of a leprous family, Manankavaly, Madagascar
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1960
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
House of a leprous family, in the mission station of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society), in Manankavaly.
The children are left with their parents when the latter are not infectious. The children go to the boarding school when they are two years old, or less if necessary. The boarding school welcomes all the healthy children who have leprous parents.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 6.8x11.4 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m74795 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_MGPP008-01086_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m74795
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_MGPP008-01086_2.jpg
Subject
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Women
Children
Leprosy
Habitats
Medical missionary work
Time Period
1920/1960
Place
Madagascar
Manankavaly (Madagascar)
Source
SMEP/MG.P.008-01086 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Madagascar Médico-social / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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