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Title
Group in front of a chapel, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unidentified
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
"En Brousse: La Chapelle et la Maison du Pere couvertes en paille" ("In Bush: The Chapel and the House of the Father covered in straw "). Six people sit on a stick fence in front of two large block buildings with thatched roofs. In the foreground, a man sits on the ground holding a white staff. 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, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12313 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0043
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12313
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0043.jpg
Subject
Missionary work
Churches
Exterior views
Place
(city)
Africa
Cameroon
Source
YDS/RG101/004/0000/0043 [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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