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Title
Mission sewing class, Kochi, India, 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
"Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission – Cochin (Indes). Les Œuvres pour la Jeunesse – Les petites doigts agiles font sauter les fuseaux." Young women and girls are shown making lace at the mission school. The girls are depicted outside seated on mats with their work in their laps. Two missionary sisters oversee the class. The following information is printed on the back of the card: "Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission – Annales des F.M.M. – Publication mensuelle. Edit. Ord. 6 Fr. Par an. – Edit. De luxe. 8.50 Fr. – 16 Route de Clamart – Vanves (Seine)." There is no handwriting on the back of the card.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0115.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84654
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0115.jpg
Subject
Schools
Girls
Handicrafts education
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Asia
India
Kerala
Kochi
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/046/0000/0115 [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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