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  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Colored postcard is labeled on the back "Worship of the Ox – Daily worship of the ox is enjoined in Hindu scriptures. The sacred bull in the picture is being led about from house to house for worship and offerings – WMMS Postcards. Series P." JPG file (126 KB)
  • Contributing Institution: Yale Divinity Library
    Description: Postcard has a printed caption "A Congregation of Hyderabad Village Christians - With the harvest Thanksgiving Collection, which had just been made – fowls, eggs, melons, rice, etc. Most of these men earn less than sixpence a day - Photo by Mr. J. Vanner Early - Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Soc...
  • 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 "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 "The child standing up is Sumitri, rescued from cruel treatment, that has left her an invalid for life; now tenderly cared for in our Bangalore Boarding school - Women’s Wesleyan Missionary Society; Jubilee series 2." JPG file (145 KB)