cover image: Twelve girls balancing jars on their heads, Madagascar, ca.1900-1930

Twelve girls balancing jars on their heads, Madagascar, ca.1900-1930

188. MADAGASCAR. - Retour des sources" ("Return from the springs"). Twelve girls in white dresses stand on a series of stone steps leading up a hillside while balancing jars of water on their heads. The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains printed information about the mission agency: "Pour < < l'OEuvre des Pretres Malgaches> > - 79, Avenue de Breteuil, Paris XVe. Ch. post. 567 39 Paris.
children customs and traditions group portraits

Authors

Unidentified

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12450
Date published
1900/1930
Dates
1900/1930
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Madagascar
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Madagascar
Reference
impa-m12450 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-005-0000-0041
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/c45855ba10b78d2ec8d691fe0ff87ef0

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