Image / Women washing clothes, Senegal, ca.1920-1940

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Title: Women washing clothes, Senegal, 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: Dakar- On va faire la lessive" ("Dakar - Doing the laundry") A group of women and girls are outside washing clothes in small tubs. The girls all have different colored and patterned dresses and some are wearing head dresses. There is also information about the Catholic mission agency: "Les Soeurs Bleues de Castres au Senegal"
The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "Les Soeurs de l'Immaculee Conception de Castres travaillent depuis 1847 en Afrique, a la regeneration de la femme noire au Senegal et au Gabon. Depuis 1904 elles exercent aussi leur zele en Ameriques du Sud, au Matto Grosso (Bresil) et en Reg. Argentine.
Type: image
Format: photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m13882 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-016-0000-0111
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m13882
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-016-0000-0111.jpg
Subject: Women
Customs and traditions
Group portraits
Time Period: 1920/1940
Place: Africa
Dakar
Senegal
Source: YDS/RG101/016/0000/0111 [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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