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Title
Missionary sister tends to a sick woman, Togo, ca. 1920-1940
Creator
Unidentified
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
53. Afrique (Togo)- les soeurs missionnaires de notre-dame des apotres soignant des malades a domicile" ("The Missionary Sisters of our Lady of the Apostles nursing patients at home") A missionary sister is kneeling on the ground with something in her hand in front of a woman who is sitting down near a straw covered house. Other women nearby are preparing food and children stand and sit around the house. The front also contains the caption: "Helio Braun, Paris.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "l'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi soutient les Missions Cathoiques du monde entier. Envoyez votre offrande par Cheques Postaux: Paris, 618.25 Lyon, 72.71. Propagation de la Foi, Paris, 5, rue Monsieur (VIIe) Lyon, 12, rue Sala
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m13936 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0010
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13936
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0010.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Medical treatment
Food preparation
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Togo
Source
YDS/RG101/018/0000/0010 [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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