<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Diorama of missionaries on a river bank at evening, Gabon, ca. 1900-1930</dc:title><dc:date>1900-1930</dc:date><dc:description>Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.</dc:description><dc:description>Salle de L'Afrique Equatoriale Francaise (Peres du St-Esprit) - La halte du missionnaire, le soir, sur le banc de sable (Gabon).  (Diorama execute dans les ateliers des peres du St-Esprit). ("Room of French Equatorial Africa (Fathers of the Holy Spirit) - the rest stop of the missionary in the evening on the sand bank (Gabon).  (Diorama carried out in the workshops of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit).")  A picture of a diorama displayed at a missions exhibition in 1931.  The piece displays two missionary fathers having recently come to shore with seven indigenous men and boys.  They make a fire on the shore as night falls.</dc:description><dc:description>The back of the postcard is blank and contains the name of the mission exhibition where the diorama was displayed--"Exposition de Vincences (1931)--and printed information about the publisher: "Aidez le MISSIONS des PERES du St-ESPRIT - Abonnez vous a leurs "ANNALES" 10 fr. - Pere Briault. C.C. 611-49, 30, Rue Lhomond, Paris (5e)."  The back also contains information about the printer: "Dillen et Cie, Heliograv. 23, rue Oudinot - Paris."</dc:description><dc:format>still image</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>