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  • Creator: Chou, Harold
    Contributing Institution: Duke University Divinity School Library
    Description: Photograph from a photographic essay on a Methodist missionary village in Hong Kong. Depicts a woman drawing water from a well, holding her child in a sling on her back, along with a group of young children. Includes captions: Money from U.S. Methodists made this pure-water well possible in Wes...
  • 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: Duke University Divinity School Library
    Description: Photograph accompanying a short column about the church's response to a crisis among migrant farm workers. Depicts a family with five children, a mother, and a disabled father receiving a box of food supplies. Includes caption: Help for migrants. Mrs. Charlie Morgan watches her husband, a one-...
  • 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...