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Title: Mission children, Chennai, 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: "Méliapour (Madras) Les enfants de la Ste. Enfance. De Kinderen der H. Kindsheid." Boys and girls of various ages are shown with missionary sisters on the grounds of the mission. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie aux Indes. De Franciscanessen Missionarissen van Maria in Indie. Ern. Thill, Bruxelles." There is no handwriting on the back.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0108.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84647
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0108.jpg
Subject: Clergy
Missionary work
Abandoned children
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Asia
Chennai
India
Tamil Nādu
Source: IMP/YDS/RG101/046/0000/0108 [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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