A Catholic missionary father sits outside a thatch hut, leaning in to show a crucifix to an elderly woman. A small child sits nearby. The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed in the margin of the correspondence section is "Missions des Oblats de Marie Immaculee" "Zoulous - "Bonne grand'mere, sais-tu bien pourquoi quelqu'un a sur cette coix, les deux bras eternellement etendus et son coeur eternellement ouvert?"
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m61006
- Date published
- circa 1920/1940
- Dates
- circa 1920/1940
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa South Africa
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- South Africa
- Reference
- impa-m61006 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-017-0000-0055
- 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/7dfa85109e0a93e792353376fe8fd7b8
