Image / Priest addresses a church full of people, Mpala, Congo, ca.1900-1930

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Title: Priest addresses a church full of people, Mpala, 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: The photograph shows the interior of a church with the pews full of people and a man in clerical vestiments standing in the front addressing the crowd.
The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "Mpala (Opper-Congo) - Aanspraak van Z. D. Mgr. Huys. -- Mpala (Haut-Congo) - Allocution de sa Grandeur Mgr. Huys." ("Mpala (Upper-Congo) - The address of his Majesty Mgr. Huys.") The back also contains information from the publisher, "Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O.L.V. van Afrika. - (Witte Zusters) Herent (Br.) - Thielt (W.V.)," and information about the printer, "Ern. Thill, Brussel."
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 8.5 x 14 cm
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13017 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0078
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13017
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-008-0000-0078.jpg
Subject: Missionary work
Churches
Religious practice
Group portraits
Time Period: 1900/1930
Place: Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mpala
Source: YDS/RG101/008/0000/0078 [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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