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Title: At a temple, 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: "India ̶ Serie I ̶ 15. L’orazione al Tempio." A holy man is depicted sitting in a temple near an earthen vessel and scattered offerings possibly, on the floor before him. A woman and girl are seen praying nearby. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "Il Pontificio Istituto delle Missioni Estere di Milano promuove la propagazione della fede e della civiltà in dieci vaste Missioni dell’ India, dell’Indocina e della Cina. Sede generale: Milano (6-43) – Via Monte Rosa 81 ̶ Telefono 40-115." There is no handwriting on the back.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0135.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84673
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-yds-rg101-046-0000-0135.jpg
Subject: Temples
Religious practice
Customs and traditions
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Asia
India
Source: IMP/YDS/RG101/046/0000/0135 [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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