Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

“Nos Eglises primitives de la Mission des Falls (Avakubi) Congo-Belge. Eerst Kerken der Falls Missie (Avakubi) Belgisch-Congo.” Girls and young women pose with a missionary father outside the first church …

"Mgr. De Vos, Prefet apostolique du Kwango." A bearded Catholic missionary father is shown seated for a portrait. The back of the postcard is blank.

“10. Congo Belge Leopoldville. La recreation. ̶ De ontspanning. ̶ The recreation. ̶ La ricreatione. ̶ El recreo. Missions des Sœurs Franciscaines Missionaires de Marie.” Women are shown during recreational …

"Vater Blumer. Kirchen-Schule Aruscha" ("Blumer father. Church-school Arusha"). Missionary Blumer standing on a meadow in front of the church and school buildings. Leonhard Blumer (1878-1938), from Kida in Estonia, served …

221. Madagascar Le bonheur et les soucis du bon grand'pere (Pere Joseph de Villele." A Catholic missionary father is shown seated and holding two white-swaddled infants on his lap. The …

"Mwaja. Das "eiserne Haus". Geschw. Zickmantel u. Br Adami." ("Mwaya. The "iron house". Br[ethren] Zickmantel a[nd] Br[other] Adami."). View of the missionaries standing in front of a two-storied rectangular house …

Photograph of two men and a woman of European origin with a group of African people sitting and standing in front of a hut. In the foreground, in the center, …

7. - MADAGASCAR. - Missionnaire en tournee." ("Missionary in the round"). A missionary sits on a horse in the midst of a shallow river. Two men stand on rocks in …

"Mor, Arne og Olav i stua, stasjonshuset, Bankim". ("Mother, Arne and Olav in the living room, the mission house, Bankim".) Olav Heggheim, Arne Heggheim and Else Marie Evensen Heggheim sitting …

"Vor dem Missionshause in Nkoaranga" ("In front of the mission house in Nkoaranga"). On the stairs in front of the entrance: 2 men, 3 women, 5 children (European, on the …