A young girl wearing a head covering and striped dress knits with a spool of dark thread. The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title "Cameroun. - Fillette d'Omvan apprenant a tricoter" ("Young girl of Omvan learns to knit") and the name of the mission agency "Editions Peres du Saint-Esprit". The Congregation of the Holy Ghost was a Catholic order that sent missionaries to French colonies in Africa.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12363
- Date published
- 1920/1940
- Dates
- 1920/1940
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic postcards, 15 x 10 cm.
- Place Discussed
- Africa Cameroon Omvan
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Cameroon
- Reference
- impa-m12363 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-004-0000-0073
- 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/16177372d428eaae027ebfe7bf778845
