Image / Families of the copper craftsmen guild, Cove, Benin, ca. 1900-1930

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Title: Families of the copper craftsmen guild, Cove, Benin, ca. 1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
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: 17. DAHOMEY - Cove - Groupe familial de la corporation des "Artisans en cuivre." ("Family group of the guild of the 'Copper Craftsmen.'") Six men, eight women, and seven children pose in a courtyard beside a thatched roof house. One man and three women are sitting. Some wear white, others wear fabrics of various patterns. Postcard issued by "Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon."
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the printer: "Phototypie Mce Lescuyer, 16, r. des Remparts-d'Ainay, Lyon.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12648 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0019
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12648
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0019.jpg
Subject: Craft workers
Family
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Benin
Cove
Source: YDS/RG101/006/0000/0019 [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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