Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

"Groupes chez les Creux" ("Groups at Creux's") Photograph of a group of Swiss missionaries in Pretoria. Standing, first from left, Arnold Borel, first from right, Ernest Creux. In the center, …

"Madagascar - Les Soeurs et leurs petites" ("Sisters and their little ones.") Over fifty Madagascan girls pose in front of a wooden school house with large steps leading to the …

"Mahlabatini" "Kjelveis yngste" ("Mahlabatini") ("Kjelvei's youngest") The smallest one is Else. They are children of Kjelvei, Johan 1879-1962 and Kjelvei, Marie 1883-1971.

"La cloche de l'Église d'Alexandra, à Johannesburg." ("The church bell in Alexandra, in Johannesburg.") Photograph of African children sitting under a bell-tower. In the background, buildings. Photographie d'enfants africains assis …

Women bringing offerings on their backs to the station of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Ebeigne, Gabon.

Portrait of Pombure, daughter of the King's son-in-law. She is a pupil of the Basel mission school. The photograph was send by Anna Wuhrmann to Jean-René Brutsch, missionary of the …

46. - Madagascar - Type de jeune fille Betsimisaraka." An oval cartouche contains a bust portrait of a smiling young girl. She wears a beaded necklace and closely-curled hair. The …

"Spelonken. Village Souto. Fillettes jouant à la pierrette" ("Spelonken. Sotho village. Little girls playing pierrette") Photograph of a group of African children sitting on the ground. This photograph was exposed …

"Petits enfants paiens avec leurs colliers de coquillages" ("Little children with their collars of shells"). Twenty children pose (half standing, half sitting) with necklaces made of shells. In the background …

Black and white photograph printed on a postcard showing a group of three Nigerian children outside a building of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in Nigeria. The group is made …