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Title
Nurse's aide prepares to weigh babies, Algiers, Algeria, ca.1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
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
Algerie et Kabylie - Alger-Marengo - Dispensaire - Ecole de la S.S.B.M. dirige par les Soeurs - La goutte de lait. Therese, fillette indigene, elevee par les Soeurs et devenue aide infirmiere, se dispose a peser un bebe." ("Algeria and Kabylie - Algiers-Marengo - Dispensary - School of the S.S.B.M. led by the Sisters .... Therese, a young indigenous girl, raised by the Sisters and become a nurse's aide, prepares to weigh a baby.") An indigenous women in a white dress stands at a scale. Behind her three women are seated with babies on their laps.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "Soeurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d' Afrique, St-Charles - Edition G.-L. ARLAUD - LYON, Repr. interdite.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 9.5 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12882 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0022
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12882
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-007-0000-0022.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Medical treatment
Group portraits
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
Africa
Algeria
Algiers
Source
YDS/RG101/007/0000/0022 [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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