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Title: Two deaconesses of the Leper-house at Orofara, on the beach
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: 102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
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Description: Two deaconesses, nurses at the Leper-house in Orofara, on the beach
The two deaconesses, sent by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society), worked in the Leper-house of Orofara from 1924 to 1927 : Sister Martha Junker and Sister Rosa Lefebvre.
Comment : The Leper-house of Orofara, located in the valley of Mahina (Tahiti), was established in 1914 by the colonial government.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : black-and-white positive, on paper, 8x7.9 cm
8x7.9 cm (sup.)
photographs
Identifier: IMP-DEFAP_PFPP175-14873_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88615
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFPP175-14873_2.jpg
Subject: Lefebvre, Rosa
Juncker, Martha
Missionary nurse
Medical missionary work
Disease control
Leper-house
Paris evangelical missionary society (1822-1971) (SMEP)
Place: French Polynesia
Mahina (French Polynesia)
Tahiti
Orofara (French Polynesia)
Mahina
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source: SMEP/PF.PP.175-14873 [File]
Relation: Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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