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Title: Children kneel in prayer before a religious statue, Congo, 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: A group of white-clad children kneel in prayer before a religious statue as a Catholic missionary sister looks on. The back of the postcard has printed on it "Congregation des Filles de la Croix de Liege Congretatie der Dochters van het Kruis te Luik Maison-mere Moederhuis : rue Hors-Chateau, 49 Mission du Hat-Congo belge. Missie van den Belgischen Opper-Congo."
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m69121 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-035-0000-0096
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m69121
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-035-0000-0096.jpg
Subject: Children
Religious practice
General views
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Source: YDS/RG101/035/0000/0096 [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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