Image / Students perform exercises at school, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Students perform exercises at school, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940
Creator: Unidentified
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: "2. Mission de Foumban - Seance de Gymnastique" ("Mission of Foumban - Gymnastics class"). With the school building in the background, over forty students and two adults perform calisthenics by standing in four straight lines with arms spread to their sides. Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin.
The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12308 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0038
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12308
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0038.jpg
Subject: Physical education
Schools
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Cameroon
Foumban
Source: YDS/RG101/004/0000/0038 [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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