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Title: Leper-house of Orofara : the infirmary and the missionaries's house
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
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)
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Description: Leper-house of Orofara : the infirmary and the missionaries's house
Comment : The Leper-house of Orofara, located in the valley of Mahina (Tahiti), was established in 1914 by the colonial government.
Use of document : Photograph published in the Journal des missions, in July-August, 1957
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 6.5x9.3 cm
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP178-14949_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88683
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP178-14949_2.jpg
Subject: Medical missionary work
Buildings
Disease control
Leper-house
Time Period: 1956
Place: French Polynesia
Mahina (French Polynesia)
Tahiti
Orofara (French Polynesia)
Mahina
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.178-14949 [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

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