Image / Swiss missionary pulling out a tooth, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911

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Title: Swiss missionary pulling out a tooth, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896-1911
Creator: Borel, Arnold, 1871-1911
Date Created and/or Issued: 1896/1911
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: DM-échange et mission
chemin des Cèdres 5, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland
info@dmr.ch
Description: "Arrachage de dent" ("Pulling out a tooth") Photograph of a Swiss missionary preparing to pull out a tooth of an African man. In the bottom right corner of the picture, newspaper headlines with the words "THE WAR" and "JACK THE RIPPER".
Photographie d'un missionnaire suisse romand s'apprêtant à arracher une dent à un homme d'origine africaine. Dans le coin inférieur droit de l'image, une manchette de journal avec les mots "THE WAR" ("LA GUERRE") et "JACK THE RIPPER" ("JACK L'EVENTREUR").
Type: image
Format: glass photonegatives, b&w
8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m64255 [Legacy record ID]
impa-a-CHL-nv110-054-760
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m64255
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-CHL-nv110-054-760.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Medical treatment
Newspapers
Indigenous populations
Jack, the Ripper
Group portraits
Time Period: 1896/1911
Place: Africa
Pretoria
South Africa
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from DM-Échange et Mission
impa-m15498

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