Image / Missionary father standing amid leprosarium huts, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Missionary father standing amid leprosarium huts, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
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: 2 - Au lazaret des lepreux. 2 - In het lazaret van de melaatschen." A Catholic missionary father stands outside of a leprosarium hut, handing something to a leprosy victim who sits on its doorstep. Other huts can be seen in the background.
The back of the postcard has no writing on it. Printed in the bottom of the correspondence section is "Congo-belge. Soeurs Dominicaines-Missionnaires de N. D. de Fichermont. Waterloo (Bruxelles)." "Belgisch-Congo Zusters Dominicanessen-Missionarissen van O. L. V. van Fichermont. Waterloo. (Brussel.)
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m63622 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-024-0000-0100
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m63622
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-024-0000-0100.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Medical treatment
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Congo
Source: YDS/RG101/024/0000/0100 [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
impa-m980

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