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  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Afrique Orientale – Jeune mariee Trainee chez son Epoux." It is labeled on the back "Aidez les Missions des peres du St. Esprit CC 1059-56 - Abonnez-vous a leurs “Annales” – 10 fr CC 611-49." Another version of this postcard has the caption "Missions des P.P. ddu S...
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missioni Torinesi Della Consolata in Africa – Italian missions (British East Africa) - Fabbrica Akikuiu di Catenelle – A avvolge filo ad un Bastoncino, B Taglia gli Anelli, C Li Aggancia, D Li Chiude / Akikuyu Little chain making, A is rolling up iwre round a stick...
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Missions du Sud-Afrique - Serie V - Le catechisme en plein air (Basutoland)." The back is labeled "Missionaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculee. Oeuvre des Missions O.M.I. - 75. Rue de l'Assumption - Paris (Xvie). Abonnez-vous aux Petites Annales des Missionaires Oblats...
  • 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: Tinted drawn Postcard has a printed caption "Church made of palm leaves, Uganda. - 'And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring. - John 10:16.'" There is a handwritten message in English on the back that says "You are cordially invited to attend a reception given a...
  • 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...
  • Date: 1908
    Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Groupe Generale de la Leproserie de Harar (Abyssinie)." Text on the back includes the following: "La diffusion de ce bulletin qui donne des etudes absolument nouvelles sur les myterieuses contrees Ethiopiennes, contriuerait a assurer l’avenir et le developpement de...
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "2. Afrique Afrique Australe – Basutoland –Le Sommeil des Missionaries dans la brousse - Coll. Propagation de la Foi - Missions des Oblats de Marie-Immaculee - Imp Reunies de Nancy." The back is labeled "L’œuvre de la Propagation de la Foi soutient les Missions cath...
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "Miss Nina Lewis Farmer, Mututo, Congo Belge 1921-1931." The back has the printed inscription "Mamu Muleka - Mamu Muleka wakalua ku Mutoto fevrier, 1921. Wakafua ku Mutoto le 12 Mars, 1931. Bantu ba bungi bakaya kumjika. Hatuakashiskisha katuakasua kumuka ku lukit...