cover image: Children bathe and get weighed, Bandundu, Congo, ca.1920-1940

Children bathe and get weighed, Bandundu, Congo, ca.1920-1940

‘Mission des Sœurs de Ste. Marie de Manur, Congo belge, Leverville (Kwango). Missie der Zusters van St. Maria van Namen, Belgische Congo, Leverville (Kwango). Mission of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, Belgian Congo, Leverville (Kwango). Mothers wait to have their babies weighed and bathed at the mission. Three missionary sister doctors or nurses oversee the process. The caption is printed on the back of the postcard. There are several lines of handwriting in French on the back.
children women clergy medical personnel medical treatment general views

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80944
Date published
1920/1940
Dates
1920/1940
Format
Photographs
Pages
photographic postcards, 8.5 x 13.5 cm
Place Discussed
Africa Bandundu Congo Democratic Republic of the
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Reference
IMP-YDS-RG101-036-0000-0083.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/5b1e2e2f9413e03b4165f56d542b5fe9

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