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Title
French missionaries on a pirogue, in Gabon
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1924-09
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
Alice Rusillon and Jean Marchaud who are missionaries of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society), leaving Talagouga to go to Ovan. They travel in a pirogue on the Ogooue river. Alice Rusillon was the wife of the missionary Emmanuel Rusillon. She worked in Gabon from 1920 to 1938. The reverend Marchaud worked in Gabon from 1921 to 1933.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 9x6 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-m79766 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_GAPP069-04563_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m79766
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_GAPP069-04563_2.jpg
Subject
Missionary
Inland water transport
Landscape
Rivers
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Time Period
1924-09
Place
Gabon
Talagouga (Gabon)
Source
SMEP/GA.PP.069-04563 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
Gabon Schweitzer / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
impa-m62959

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