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Title
Class at the mission school, Kisangani, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
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
"Missies en Werken der Franciscanessen Missionarissen van Maria. De kas te Stanleystad (Belgisch Congo.)" Students of varying ages are shown at their desks in a mission classroom. A missionary teacher sister conducts the lesson. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "De Franciscanessen Missionarissen van Maria hebben tegenwordig in de missielanden 152 huizen met 129 scholen en 430 werken voor de kindsheid groepeerend 49,239 kinderen. Bovendien hebben ze voor de zieken 45 hospitalen met 81,476 daar verblijvende zieken in het jaar, 8 melaatschenhuitzen, met 1,627 melaatschen, 7 lazaretten met 2,178 besmettelijke zieken en 107 armenapotheken waar 2,529,121 verplegiingen werden gegeven gedurende het jaar 1928. Ze hebben ook 25 gasthuizen en toevluchtsoorden met 1,516 ouderlingen en vrouwen, 33 catechumenaten met 845 catechumenen, 83 bezoekmiddens met 85,830 zieken, 19,993 armen, 744 gevangenen jaarlijks bezocht. In den loop van het jaar 1928 hebben ze 32,834 doopsels toegediend ‘in articulo mortis’. Franciscanesssen Missionarissen van Maria Tervuerenlaan, 268, Woluwe-Brussel." There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg101-045-0000-0104.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84386
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-045-0000-0104.jpg
Subject
Students
School
Clergy: Teachers
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Kisangani
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/045/0000/0104 [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
image/tiff
impa-m980

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