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Title
Medical house call, India, 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
A missionary sister doctor or nurse is shown bandaging the hand of an older village woman while three young women sit nearby. A thatched roof hut is seen in the background. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "Kanunnikessen ̶ Missiezusters van de H. Augustinus. Heverlee-bij-Leuven. Chanoinesses ̶ Missionaires de Saint-Augustin. Héverlé-lez-Louvain. Ern. Thill, Brussel." There are several lines of handwriting in Dutch on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0123.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84662
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0123.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Medical treatment
Medical personnel
Rural areas
Girls
Women
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Asia
India
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/046/0000/0123 [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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