“Haut-Congo. Les malades du sommeil à Mpala. Opper-Congo. Slaapzieken te Mpala.” A missionary sister doctor or nurse tends to a group of patients suffering from sleeping sickness. The patients lie or sit on mats outside at the mission. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Postulats des Sœurs Missionnaires de N.-D. d’Afrique, (Sœurs Blanches), Hérent (Br) – Thielt (Fl. Oc). Postulaten der Zusters Missionarissen van O. L.V. , van Afrika . (Witte Zusters) Herent (Br.) – Thielt (W. Vl.). Ern. Thill, Bruxelles.” There is no handwriting on the back.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80958
- Date published
- 1920/1940
- Dates
- 1920/1940
- Format
- Photographs
- Pages
- photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
- Place Discussed
- Africa Congo Democratic Republic of the Mpala
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Reference
- IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0092.tif
- 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/898452649ad7e2319df0779081f9f26b
