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  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard is a cartoon showing two men talking to each other. In addition to their dialogue is a label "Recyclage." Printed in West Germany, the back of the postcard is labeled "Procure des Missions, Douala B.P. 5280 (Rep. fed. Du Cameroun)." "Dessin du P. Noel Tinguely c. s. sp." JPG file (87 KB)
  • Date: 1920
    Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "49. Chilonda Conference, 1920" on the front and labeled "Edward Sanders, Missao Ingleza, Bie Angola" on the back. The postcard was printed in England. It shows a group of adults and children posed for a formal group portrait. Four of the twelve adults are African; ...
  • 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 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 is labeled on the back "Bathing in the sacred Ganges – Every Hindu desires to visit Benares, and to bathe in its holy waters is to make sure of the highest heaven of his dreams. The city of Benares has a population of 200,000, and the Methodist Church sends just two missionaries...
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "20. Atelier de cordonnerie a la Kafubu / 20. De schoenmakers der school te Kafubu - Oeuvres de Don Bosco - Pref. Apost. Laupula Superieur (Congo belge) / Werk van Don Bosco - Pref. van Boven-Luapula (Belg. Kongo)." JPG file (83 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: 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: Postcard has a printed caption "Missionary Sisters of the Third Order Regular of Mary - For the Marist missions in the South Sea Islands 5. Chemin du signal, Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon, Rhone –France - Blessed Chanel’s Covent 13 Isabella St. Boston mass USA – Mat weaving Haapai Toga." JPG file (156 KB)
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Colored drawn postcard is labeled "Universities’ Mission to Central Africa - 9 Dartmouth Street, Westminster. - The Boys at Magila, East Africa, are taught various handicrafts : printing carpentering, sewing with machines, etc. the boys can make kanzus, kisibaus, caps and European clothing. Calic...