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Title
Learning to sew with machines, Congo, ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
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
“Congo Belge. ̶ Nos jeunes tailleuses. Belgische Congo. ̶ Onze jonge naalsters. Three girls sit at treadle sewing machines working on their sewing projects while the missionary sister teacher instructs. The caption and following information are printed on the back of the postcard: “Maison des Chanoinesses de S. Augustin en Belgique. Noviciat: 80 rue du Canal, Louvain. Postulat: N.D. de la Paix, Eyseringen. Maison du Sacré-Cœr, chaussée de Menin. Roulers. Huizen der Kanonikessen van den H. Aguustinus in Belgïe. Noviciaat: 88 Vaartstratat, Leuven. Postulaat: O.L.V. van Vrede, Eyseringen. Huis van het H. Hart, Meenensdhesteenweg, Roeselare.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0041.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80903
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0041.jpg
Subject
Girls
Clergy
Teachers
Handicrafts
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1940
Place
Africa
Congo Democratic Republic of the
Source
IMP/YDS/RG101/036/0000/0041 [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
image/tiff

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