Image / Man weaving on a loom, Benin, ca.1954

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Title: Man weaving on a loom, Benin, ca.1954
Creator: Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1954
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 AFRICAINES" "Kouande (Nord-Dahomey), Tisserand au travail". A seated man labors at a loom strung between forked sticks.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten address. Printed on it is "Notre but est d'etendre le Royaume du Christ jusque dans les regions les plus reculees de l'AFRIQUE. Champ d'Apostolat de 30,000,000 d'Ames! Repondre a leur appel c'est cooperer aux efforts de 1,200 Missionnaires... 55 Pretres indigenes... Qu'en partageant leurs merites, Dieu vous donne part a leur recompense." The back of the postcard is stamped and postmarked.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m58560 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0112
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m58560
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-011-0000-0112.jpg
Subject: Handicrafts
Indigenous populations
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1954
Place: Africa
Dahomey
Kouande
Source: YDS/RG101/011/0000/0112 [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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