cover image: Medical care in the country, Kisangani, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Medical care in the country, Kisangani, Congo, ca.1920-1940

“Stanleyville (Congo) – Consultation en brousse. Village families wait for medical care from two missionary sister doctors or nurses. The image is an artist’s colorized rendering of a photograph. The following information is also printed on the back of the postcard: “Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie. Congrégation essentiellement missionnaire fondée en 1877. Leur genre de vie est tout empreint de l’idéal évangélique: elles exercent un intense apostolate par des œuvres nimbfeuses et très divefses: enseivnemeng, hôpitaux, œuvres socials, etc. – Elles cherchent la bénédiction de leur activité dans l’adoration quotidienne du Très Saint Sacrement exposé. L’institute compte 9,200 membres en 405 maisons répandues dans le monde entire. Leurs Sept Martyres, Massacrées en Chine en 1900 furent béatifiées in 1946. Maison Provincale: 268, A. de Tervueren, Bruxelles.” There is no handwriting on the back of the card.
children women medical personnel medical treatment general views

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80837
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 10 x 15 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Congo Democratic Republic of the Kisangani
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
IMP-YDS-RG101-038-0000-0048.tif
Rights
Divinity.Library@yale.edu Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06556 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/12302e9ebcdbece329382facf40403ac

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