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Title
Bishop says goodbye to departing missionaries, Lesotho, ca.1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
"MISSIONS DU SUD-AFRIQUE - Serie III - Les adieux de l'Eveque a ses Missionnaires apres la Retraite (Basutoland)." ("MISSIONS OF SOUTH-AFRICA - Series III - The good-byes of the Bishop to his Missionaries after the Retreat (Basutoland).") In a long line, six missionary fathers, three indigenous boys, and one indigenous man pose on horseback. Two other priests stand on the ground with the group shaking hands with two of the men on horseback.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains printed information about the mission agency: "MISSIONNAIRES OBLATS DE MARIE-IMMACULEE - Oeuvre des Missions O.M.I. - 75, Rue de l'Assomption - PARIS (XVIe). - Abonnez-vous aux Petites Annales des Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculee. Revue Mensuelle: 10 fr. C./C. 99-99. Paris." ("MISSIONARY OBLATES OF IMMACULATE MARY - Work of Missions O.M.I. - 75, Street of the Assumption - PARIS (XVIe). - Subscribe to the Small Annals of the Missionary Oblates of Immaculate Mary. Monthly Review: 10 fr. C./C. 99-99. Paris.")
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12830 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0146
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12830
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0146.jpg
Subject
Travel
Clergy
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
(city)
Africa
Lesotho
Source
YDS/RG101/006/0000/0146 [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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