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Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missions des P. P. du Saint Esprit - Bapteme d'adultes." JPG file (155 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "En route pour la visite des villages - Makogai (Fidji)." The back is labeled "Soeurs missionaries de la Societe de Marie Chemin du Signal – Ste-Foy-les-Lyon (Rhone) – Phototypie lescuyer, 16, r. Remparts-d’Ainay, Lyon." JPG file (149 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard has a printed caption "10551 Saving Sinners. Scene along the Mississippi." JPG file (172 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Front and side view of two Yawyin or Lissyu women in gala attire." The back is labeled "Front and side view of two Yawyin or Lissyu women in gala attire: Note the long fringe in the turban. - Published by the American Baptist mission press, Rangoon, Burma. Series N... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missions d'Afrique - Ecole - Nos Ecoles existent sous le controle de l'Etat." -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Un Missionnaire et ses Catechistes. - Nouvelle-Guinee." JPG file (173 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missions des Peres Maristes en Oceanie. - Enfants contemplant leur portrait. Archipel des Salomon." The back is labeled "Sous procure des Missions 6, Rue de Bagneux, Paris - VI." JPG file (145 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missionaire et indigenes - Missionary and natives." The back is labeled "Missionaires du Sacre-coeur d’Issoudun - Pappouasie- Nouvelle-Guinee (Oceanie) / Sacred Heart Fathers – Papua." JPG file (126 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "A Typical Burmese Village Family (photo by Mr. J. Vanner Early) . In this case, it is the father who carries the baby and the mother who sits smoking. - Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society 17 Bishopsgate St. Within, E.C." JPG file (139 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has printed captions "Types de la Montagne" and "Dans la Montagne. Indigenes." The back is labeled "Missionaires du Sacre-coeur d’Issoudun - Papouasie- Nouvelle-Guinee (Oceanie)." JPG file (115 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "A Ward in a Chinese hospital - Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 27, Chancery Lane, Londo, W.C. Series XII." JPG file (130 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard has a printed caption "SPG Missionary Postcard No. 77 - Fijians at work making fans and mats. The SPG is woking amongst the coolies in Fiji." There is a handwritten message in English on the back. JPG file (179 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard has a printed caption "The Goddess Kali. This photograph is taken form a picture sold in Bengal to be hung up on the wall and worhsipped. Kail holds a demon’s head; round her neck is a string of skulls, and her tongue is red with the blood in which she delights. She is worship... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard is labeled on the back "The African “Coach and Four” – The hammock slung from a frame that rests on the heads of four men, or from a pole borne by two, is t he method of West African travel for those who cannot trudge on foot. It looks delightful, but - ! WMMS Postcards Series O... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard is labeled on the back "How they dine in India: This is the style of well-to-do India where western fashions have not yet come in. No chairs, no table, no jacket; a section of banana leaf to serve for tablecloth and lates and dishes. And the wife to stand and serve her lord unt... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard is labeled on the back "The Blind musician – Blindness is a terribly common affliction among children in China, and means begging and shame except where Christian benevolence comes to the rescue. The David Hill Blind school at Hankow does a noble work of mercy for such children.... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard has a printed caption "9. A Home for lepers - By the wayside in India the leper is still begging for alms. Missionaries have erected leper homes in many places, caring for them. Many have been converted, one man at Bhagalpur, in 1905, after ten years teaching. “Sinners gather ... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard has a printed caption "10. A Confirmation Scene - The majority of the candidates here are adult converts from heathenism. Many undergo great persecution to confess Christ. One a Telugu woman, when threatened, replied, “You may burn my house and even kill me, but I will never gi... -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Colored postcard has a printed caption "Playing at School - Baptist Missionary Society Pictorial Post Cards, 19, Furnival St., E.C." JPG file (155 KB) -
Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library Description: Postcard is labeled on the back "A West African Village Church – The seats are narrow ridges of mud, the floor is mud, the walls are mud. But it may be this building cost more, by the Saviour’s reckoning, and is more precious to him, than your 10,000 Gothic sanctuary - WMMS Postcards. Series O....