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Title
Children marching with flowers at school in Asmara, Eritrea, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
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
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna -Fiori della vita e fiori digiardino - Dalta scuola alla chiesa d'Asmara" Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, America. Fa opera di assistenze cristiana e umniaris in Ospedali, Case di Salue, Ricoveri, Manicomi, Carceri, Lazzaretti, Lebbrosal, ecc. - Si dedica al l'educazione cristiana, morale e civile in Asili d'Infanzia, Laboratori, Collegi, Pensionati, Instituti di Ciechi, Sordomuti, ecc. - Ha Misisnoi in Palestina, Eritrea e nell'America Meridionale. La Casa Generilizia in Roma 'Collegio Internazionale per le Missioni' Via Merulana 177" Young girls in white dresses and flowered head wreaths are carrying baskets as they march down a field. They are accompanied by a missionary sister as a crowd including priests and soldiers looks on.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9.2 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg101-051-0000-0163.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84570
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-051-0000-0163.jpg
Subject
Schools
Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Asmara
Eritrea
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/051/0000/0163 [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
impa-m980

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