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Title: Indigenous men building a house for a missionary, Ethiopia, ca.1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900/1930
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: "Les Peres Capucins en ETHIOPIE - Construction d'une maison pour le Missionnaire." ("The Capucin Fathers in ETHIOPIA - Construction of a house for the Missionary.") Five Ethiopian men and five Ethiopian boys are building a circular house out of long thin pieces of wood and grass. Two of the men are thatching the roof. Postcard issued by the "Religieux de France."
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14.25 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12717 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0057
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12717
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0057.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Housing
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: (city)
Africa
Ethiopia
Source: YDS/RG101/006/0000/0057 [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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