Image / Young woman and young girl going to the fountain, Kabylie, Algeria, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Young woman and young girl going to the fountain, Kabylie, Algeria, 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: "Algerie et Kabylie - Kabylie - Jeune femme et fillette se rendant a la fontaine." ("Algeria and Kabylie - Kabylie - young woman and young girl going to the fountain.") An indigenous woman dressed in white wearing a large necklace carries a water jug on her back. Next to her a small girl dressed in dark clothes also carries a jar on her back.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Soeurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d' Afrique, St-Charles - Edition G.-L. ARLAUD - LYON, Repr. interdite." The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa were a Catholic missionary order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 14 x 9.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12887 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0027
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12887
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0027.jpg
Subject: Customs and traditions
Women
Indigenous populations
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Algeria
Kabylie
Source: YDS/RG101/007/0000/0027 [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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