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Title
Two young girls, Eritrea, 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
Gia fidanzate! ....." Two young girls stand for a photograph. They wear ragged white tunics and ornaments at wrist, neck, and ears.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "La Missione Eritrea soccore la fanciullezza abbandonata della Colonia con nemerosi orfanotrofi e brefotrofi. Date il vostro obolo : e opera di religione e di patria. Gratzie vi diranno tanti piccini che voi salvate. Dirigere le offerte : Segretariato delle Missioni Cappuccine Lombarde - Milano - Viale Monforte, 2.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m58921 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-013-0000-0080
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58921
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-013-0000-0080.jpg
Subject
Children
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Eritrea
Source
YDS/RG101/013/0000/0080 [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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