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

"Interior" The front of the church at Kano is shown with decorated altar and wooden benches for seating.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Battage des haricots, juillet 1923" ("Threshing beans, July 1923") Photograph of African women threshing beans in Antioka. In the foreground, in the center, two children. In the background, buildings and …


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

“Anthony” Portrait of Austin John Anthony Irvine, son of Archibald Clive Irvine and Margaret Joyce Irvine, who was born in Aberdeen in April1922 and spent his childhood in the Chogoria …


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Lifidi a Shendam official and the first Shendam schoolboy" A man in a robe and cap stands with his bicycle in front of a large tree.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Fr. Sirlinger's two hunter" Two native men holding clubs are posed in front of a thatched wall.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923

Children standing under mangotrees during the communion, in Samkita.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Children in native costume" Three young children standing in front of the Mission building wear minimal clothing.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

Sewing lesson in the girls'school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Yabassi. The lesson is on wednesday afternoon, before the prayer time.


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Schoolboys after work drinking native beer" More than twenty boys are seated in a flat area in front of two buildings. There are what appear to be wooden sawhorses in …


USC: University of Southern California · 1923 English

"Native Christians at Shendam - Sunday morning" About twenty men, women, and children are posed with the Mission House in the background