cover image: Missionary sister teaching girls how to embroider, Madagascar, ca.1900-1930

Missionary sister teaching girls how to embroider, Madagascar, ca.1900-1930

"Madagascar - Une lecon de broderie sur filet." ("A lesson of embroidery on a thread of linen.") A missionary sister stands with seven adolescent Madagascan girls, instructing them how to embroider on a long piece of fabric stretched on a frame. Postcard issued by the "Mission des Soeurs de la Providence de Corenc (Isere)." The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains a printed note: "Au profit des Orphelinats de la Mission." ("To the profit of the orphanages of the mission.")
abandoned children clergy handicrafts group portraits

Authors

Unidentified

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12594
Date published
1900/1930
Dates
1900/1930
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Madagascar
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Madagascar
Reference
impa-m12594 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0123
Rights
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
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/efbc8b44b3b463b28de412c5fd24791a

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