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Title
Woman posed with her children, Gingungi, 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
A woman is standing outside posed with her children. She is holding a baby in her arms, the older child is standing next to her, and three children are sitting on the ground in front of the woman. There are two people standing off in the distance.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains the caption: "12. Une famille chretienne a Gingungi." ("A Christian family of Gingungi.") There is also information about the mission agency: "Mission des Soeurs de l'Union au S. C., Gingungi s/Lukula, Kwango. Maison-mere a Hougaerde, pres Tirlemont."
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m14485 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-019-0000-0111
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14485
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-019-0000-0111.jpg
Subject
Women
Rural areas
Family
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source
YDS/RG101/019/0000/0111 [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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