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Title
Dahomean group poses before a church with a large bell tower, Athiémé, Benin, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1929
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
19. DAHOMEY - Le clocher d'Athieme construit par le R.P. Truhand, 1929. ("The bell-tower of Athieme built by R.P. Truhand, 1929.") A large group of Dahomean women, men, and children wearing dresses and suits stands in front of a stone church with a very large bell tower. Postcard issued by "Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon."
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the printer: "Phototypie Mce Lescuyer, 16, r. des Remparts-d'Ainay, Lyon.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12646 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0017
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12646
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0017.jpg
Subject
Churches
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1929
Place
Africa
Athiémé
Benin
Source
YDS/RG101/006/0000/0017 [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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