Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

"Porteuses d'eau. Makoulane [Makulane]." ("Female water carriers. Makoulane [Makulane]."). "Élèves de l'école" ("Schoolchildren") Photographs of a group of African people. Left picture: young women carrying pots on their head. Right …

Three children stand before a backdrop of trees, apparently conversing. The children are laughing. The back of the card is addressed and has handwriting. Printed at the edge of the …

"Les soeurs bleues de Castres au Gabon (A. E. F.)" "J'ai 4 ans .... Je m'appelle Antoinette" "Je suis chretienne grace aux Soeurs Bleues". The back of the postcard has …

Photograph of a group of Swiss missionaries in Elim. Sitting, second from right, Arnold Borel. In the background, a building. Photographie d'un groupe de missionnaires suisses romands à Elim. Assis, …

Four children are shown in a painted scene. They walk past a thatch-roofed building bearing baskets on their heads and holding fruit and baskets in their hands. The back of …

"Bruder Fichert(?)" ("Brother Fichert(?)"). Brother Fichert sitting on a chair with a puppy dog on his lap, 3 African boys standing or squatting around him (European clothing), 1 African girl …

Girl taking her medicine, to prevent paludism, in the hospital of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Ebeigne, Gabon.

"17.mai-piknikk, Duru-falaisen". ("May 17 picnic [Norwegian national day], the Duru falaise".) Men, women and older children on picnic.

"Ingeborg Guth schlägt die Trommel" ("Ingeborg Guth beating the drum"). Ingeborg Guth and three other girls kneeling down around the drum. Four girls standing behind them. Wilhelm Guth (1888-1980), from …

Portrait of pupils of a mission school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Gabon.