cover image: Victims of sleeping sickness, Congo, ca.1920-1940

Victims of sleeping sickness, Congo, ca.1920-1940

“Les Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie en Mission – Nouvelle-Anvers (Congo Belge). Œuvres pour les malades – La maladie du sommeil fait encore bien des victimes au Congo.” Two Missionary sister nurses or doctors treat a group of patients suffering from sleeping sickness. Some look very undernourished. The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: “Les Fransciscaines Missioaires de Marie en Mission – Annales de F.M.M., Fr. 6 -16, Route de Ciamart – Vanves (Seine). There is no handwriting on the back.
clergy medical personnel hunger medical treatment group portraits

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80979
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Congo Democratic Republic of the
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0116.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/545ed03eb0af81349fcf04997dc6b373

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