Image / Indigenous people bringing food to the mission, Virungu, Congo, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Indigenous people bringing food to the mission, Virungu, Congo, ca.1900-1930
Creator: Unidentified
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: "88 Congo Belge - Belgisch-Congo - Baudouinville - Indigenes apportant des vivres a la mission. - Inlanders die levensmiddelen aanbrengen voor de zending." ("88 Belgian Congo - Baudouinville - Natives bringing food to the mission.") A wide dirt road lined with thatched-roof huts leads to a large stone church. Over fifty indigenous men, women, and children travel on the road toward the church carrying baskets and bundles on their heads.
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.75 x 13.75 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m12971 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0032
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12971
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0032.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Churches
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Virungu
Source: YDS/RG101/008/0000/0032 [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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