cover image: Sleeping sickness patients, Kananga, Congo, ca.1920-1940

Sleeping sickness patients, Kananga, Congo, ca.1920-1940

“Malades du sommeil au lazaret Alma Mater de Luluabourg (Scheut). Slaapzieden in ‘t ziekenhuis Alma Mater te Luluaburg (Scheut)”. Many patients suffering from sleeping sickness sit outside the mission quarantine building. Some appear very undernourished. A missionary sister stands to the side. “Propriété de Scheut ̶ Eigendom van Scheut.” is printed on the back of the postcard. There is no handwriting on the back.
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Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80995
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 Kananga
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0132.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/8257f396c3368a78bbfeeda2f38b4f06

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