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Title
Mothers and infants clinic, Virungu, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1940
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
“Haut-Congo, Baudouinville: Dispensaire de Nourissons annexé à l’Ecole de Puériculture et d’hygiène special.” Mothers and their babies pose outside the infants’ clinic which is part of the School for Child welfare and hygiene. Two missionary sister nurses or doctors stand at a table with medicine bottles. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Sœurs Missionnaires de N.D. d’Afrique (Sœurs Blanches du Cardinal Lavigerie). ̶ Postulats: Andenne (Namur) Thielt (Fl. Occ.). Noviciat: Hérent (Brabant). Procure: Louvain, 13, Rue des Moutons. Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.”
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-039-0000-0143.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-81167
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-039-0000-0143.jpg
Subject
Hospitals
Medical personnel
Medical treatment
Clergy
Women
Children
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Virungu
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/039/0000/0143 [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
image/tiff

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