cover image: Women and missionary sister outside a hut, Kasai, Congo, ca.1920-1940

Women and missionary sister outside a hut, Kasai, Congo, ca.1920-1940

Merode-Salvator- Voor he hutje van een sieke. Devant la hutte d'un malade." ("Before the hut of a patient") A group of women and children are standing outside near a thatched hut, with a missionary sister who is standing near a child. One of the women is holding a basket on her head while the other holds a large stick in a wooden churn. The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the Catholic mission agency: "Zusters van den H. Jozef, Zilverstraat, Brugge- Missien in Kasai, Congo." "Soeurs de St. Joseph, rue d'Argent, Bruges- Missions au Kasai, Congo." The back of the postcard also contains information about the printer: "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.
women clergy group portraits

Authors

Unidentified

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m14563
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Kasai
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
impa-m14563 [Legacy record ID]; IMP-YDS-RG101-020-0000-0044
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/b2e10c942bb533fcdfb181bfca36c9b1

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