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Title
French mission party, in Northern Rhodesia, Zambia
Creator
Coillard, François, 1834-1904
Date Created and/or Issued
1884
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
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/index.php?id=266
http://www.defap.fr/contact.php
Description
French mission party of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Northern Rhodesia: François Coillard and Jeanmairet in the background, Waddell on the left, Middleton on the right, Elise and Christina Coillard in the middle. The african people are the Sotho evangelists with their wives: Léfi and his wife, Esaïe, Aaron and his wife Ruth.
François Coillard was the first missionary of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) who went in Barotseland to evangelize the Lozi people. He worked in this region from 1878 to 1904. Photograph published in 1887 by François Coillard in the photo album named "Vues du Zambèze".
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 12.5x17.5 cm
19x24 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier
impa-m72764 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-DEFAP_COPP059-02315_2
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m72764
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_COPP059-02315_2.jpg
Subject
Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, SMEP (Paris evangelical missionary society)
Travel
Missionary work
Missionary
Artisan missionary
Indigenous lay worker
Time Period
1884
Place
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
Western (Zambia)
Zambia
Source
SMEP/CO.P.059-02315 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971
Vues du Zambèze de Coillard / Société des missions évangéliques de Paris
impa-m62959

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