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Title
School for leper children at Orofora
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/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
School for leper children at Orofora
Pupils are sitting at tables. A deaconess is standing on the right.
Comment : The Leper-house at Orofara, located in the valley of Mahina (Tahiti), was established in 1914 by the colonial government.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 7.8x8.7 cm
7.8x8.7 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFPP175-14870_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88612
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP175-14870_2.jpg
Subject
Medical missionary work
Classes
Indigenous populations
Students
Disease control
Leper-house
Place
French Polynesia
Mahina (French Polynesia)
Tahiti
Orofara (French Polynesia)
Mahina
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source
SMEP/PF.PP.175-14870 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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