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Title
Women and children preparing food outside a stone building, Syria, ca.1856-1910
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1856/1910
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
"Feeding the fatted sheep and baking bread on the soj". Women and children are shown baking bread over an iron plate outside a building of roughly-dressed stones.
From the collection of Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910) who was a missionary in Syria from 1856 to 1910, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Presbyterian Mission Board.
Type
image
Format
photographs, 18 x 26 cm.
Identifier
impa-m67022 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG117-010-0055-0001
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m67022
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG117-010-0055-0001.jpg
Subject
Women
Food preparation
General views
Time Period
1856/1910
Place
Asia
Lebanon
Source
YDS/RG117/010/0055/0001 [File]
Relation
Henry Harris Jessup Papers
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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