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Title
Medical care in the country, 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 Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06556
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
“Stanleyville (Congo) – Consultation en brousse. Village families wait for medical care from two missionary sister doctors or nurses. The image is an artist’s colorized rendering of a photograph. The following information is also printed on the back of the postcard: “Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie. Congrégation essentiellement missionnaire fondée en 1877. Leur genre de vie est tout empreint de l’idéal évangélique: elles exercent un intense apostolate par des œuvres nimbfeuses et très divefses: enseivnemeng, hôpitaux, œuvres socials, etc. – Elles cherchent la bénédiction de leur activité dans l’adoration quotidienne du Très Saint Sacrement exposé. L’institute compte 9,200 membres en 405 maisons répandues dans le monde entire. Leurs Sept Martyres, Massacrées en Chine en 1900 furent béatifiées in 1946. Maison Provincale: 268, A. de Tervueren, Bruxelles.” There is no handwriting on the back of the card.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 10 x 15 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-038-0000-0048.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80837
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-038-0000-0048.jpg
Subject
Medical treatment
Medical personnel
Children
Women
General views
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Kisangani
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/038/0000/0048 [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

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