Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

An exterior view of the courtyard at the Kolwezi Mission. The back of the postcard is blank and contains the caption: "Kolwezi. N.- D. des Lumieres. Cour interieure." ("Courtyard") There …

Stanleyville.- Institut de la Mission des Freres de St. Gabriel." ("Institute of Mission of the Brothers of St. Gabriel") An exterior view of the mission house, with two missionary father's …

"Mboumborg-fjellet, Belel-veien". ("The Mboum [Mboumborg or Mboum castle] mountain, the Belel road".) Houses in front of the mountain.

"Das Missionshaus in Gonja von Rosen und Cypressen umgeben" ("The mission house in Gonja surrounded by roses and cypresses"). House thatched with plant fiber having a canopy of corrugated iron …

"Station missionnaire de Manjacaze. Maison missionnaire." ("Manjacaze mission station. Mission house.") Photograph of the mission house in Manjacaze. A woman stands in front of the building. In the foreground, a …

Accra Gold Coast, W. A." A slightly elevated view shows numerous tin-roofed buildings arranged around an open dirt courtyard. People are gathered in the yard, around bundles of sticks lying …

"Ambòhimànga, North side". View of village houses and hills. John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital …

"Die Werf in Mamre nach der Versammlung." ("The mission premises in Mamre after the congregation."). In the foreground are several Africans of different ages. Some buildings of the mission station …

“Mothers house and the ladies.” Group portrait of a European woman with indigenous men and women. The woman is Mrs Louisa Carr, wife of Ernest Carr (1868-1939) and mother of …

"Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon, Cote-D'Or - Fortification d'un village". People sit and walk before walls of piled stone that guard an approach to a village. The back of …