Washing babies in front of a house, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1930

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Title: Washing babies in front of a house, Cameroon, ca. 1920-1930
Published / Created: 1920-1930
Publication Place: Cameroon, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Cameroun - La toilette des Bebes ("The washing of the babies"). Three small babies sit in bowls filled with water while three adolescent girls pose behind them. In the background, another child sits on the steps to the house, a woman leans from the railing of the porch, and another woman holds a baby in the doorway.
The back of the postcard is blank, with a printed address for the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Bld Arago (Paris) - Braun & Cie. Imp. Edit., Mulhouse-Dornach" The Société des Missions was a Protestant organization known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.
Extent: 9 x 14 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 4

Access: Public
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