cover image: Missionary house with thatched roof, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

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Missionary house with thatched roof, Foumban, Cameroon, ca.1920-1940

"9. Mission de Foumban - La Maison des peres" ("Mission of Foumban - the House of the fathers"). Six people mingle in front of a long wooded house with a thatched roof and large porch. Postcard issued by Mission des Pretres du Sacre-Coeur de St-Quentin. The back of the postcard is blank with printed information about the mission agency: "Procure de la Mission du Cameroun: 214, Rue Lafayette, Paris (Xe)" and a printed address of the publisher: "Edit. M. Brochard. 81, quai Fosse - Nantes" The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were a Catholic religious order.
housing clergy exterior views

Authors

Unidentified

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12306
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 8.75 x 14.5 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Cameroon Foumban
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Cameroon
Reference
impa-m12306 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0036
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/52858e60430fddb5e4c28b189684a930

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