cover image: Threshing sorghum, Congo, ca.1920-1940

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Threshing sorghum, Congo, ca.1920-1940

"12. – Kiniama – Battage du sorgho. Elizabethstad – Het dorschen van den sorgho." Children take turns smashing sorghum grain with wooden bats. A missionary father oversees the work. "Missions Salésiennes du Congo Belge ̶ Première Série. Salesiaansche Zendingen in Belgisch Congo ̶ Eerste Reeks." The following information is printed on the back of the postcard: "Grace à votre charité nous avons pu fonder des Missions jusqu’ aux extrémités de la terre. Le Vénérable Don Bosco. Met hulp uwer m milddadigheid hebben wij zendingen kunnen stichfen in alle gewesten. De Eerbiedwaardie Don Bosco ." There is no handwriting on the back.
children clergy food preparation general views

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-84339
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
impa-yds-rg101-045-0000-0060.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/8a86c100cff54053efe2a0b91751b772

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