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Title
Missionary sisters with girls spinning thread, Angola, 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
Angola. - Filant la toile pour la Mission." ("Angola. - Spinning the fabric for the Mission.") Two missionary sisters pose with thirteen indigenous girls all of whom are spinning wool into thread. Postcard issued by the "Congregation de Saint Joseph de Cluny, 21, rue Mechain, Paris."
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the printer: "Helio Aulard, Iung et Cie, Paris.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 13.75 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12890 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0030
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12890
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0030.jpg
Subject
Handicrafts
Children
Clergy
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
(city)
Africa
Angola
Source
YDS/RG101/007/0000/0030 [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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