Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

University of Southern California

Selected items with African Origination


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USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

A missionary father pose with a group of Malagasy patients from the leprosarium in a clearing near trees. There are several lines of French handwritten on the back of the …


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Fr. Sirlinger's room" A finely constructed wooden desk has a typewriter, a clock, and some books and papers on it. This is Father Eugène Sirlinger's room at the Shendam Mission.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

A missionary baptizes several Bamoun young women in Foumban.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Commander and Mrs. Doelberg" A European couple, wearing pith helmets, stand in front of some palm trees at the Shendam Mission. He is presumably with the armed forces Nigeria.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Christengemeinde in Aruscha" ("Christian congregation in Arusha"). Group portrait of large group of people. The men standing on the left and the women on the right side, the children sitting …


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Fr. Sirlinger travelling" A native man is showing several bowls and basins taken from a wooden carrying crate at the entrance to a thatched roof hut.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

Portrait of a group of french missionaries of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society): Mr and Mrs Nicod, Mr and Mrs Galland, Mr Nouvelon.



USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

Portrait of the pupils of Pongo.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Native Xtian family at their home. Martha the king's daughter and Anna" A man and wife and two children are seated on the ground in front of a hut with …