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Title
Large congregation inside a Catholic church, Madagascar, 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
15. - MADAGASCAR. - Ce que le Missionnaire voit de l'Autel." ("What the Missionary sees from the Altar"). Over two hundred Malagasy men, women, and children sit in the pews and stand along the walls of a brick church with a high ceiling and large windows. The picture is taken from the altar looking out into the nave. Nearly all the people wear white.
The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains printed information about the mission agency: "Pour &lt
&lt
l'OEuvre des Pretres Malgaches&gt
&gt
- 79, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris XVe. Ch. post. 567 39 Paris
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12439 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0030
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12439
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0030.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Churches
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Madagascar
Source
YDS/RG101/005/0000/0030 [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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