Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and includes information about the publisher: "Ligue Nationale Pour La Protection de L'Enfance Noire Au Congo Belge- Envoyez votre adhesion a la Tresoriere, Mme M. Lescart- 52, rue Americaine, Bruxelles- Cotisation annuelle : 1 fr.; 5 fr.; 10 fr.", and Types de guerriers Bapotos. ("Types of Bapotos warriors.") There are six warriors posed outside with their shields in front of them and spears in their hands. The front of the postcard also contains: "Reproduction interdite CL Dr De-Valkeneer"
"County government in the Buddhist cave at Tzechow during war." Men are shown working at desks below an auditorium in a Buddhist cave temple. People are seen in the tiered seating area and several larger than life statues sit in the front sections.
Subject (Geographic):
Sichuan Sheng (China)
Subject (Topic):
Buddhism; Temples; War; Customs and traditions; Religious practice
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., and 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.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 168 | Folder 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Soochow A woman is washing clothes and a man is collecting water from the canal, standing on a small wooden platform attached to stone wall that forms the foundation of a row of houses.
“Madagascar. ̶ Elèves des Sœurs au lavou.” Missionary sisters supervise as girls wash clothes in a stream. Two young women are seen wringing out a long item that has been washed. There is no handwriting on the back of the postcard.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Amadi - Lessive au bord de l'Uele - De wasch aan de Uele-stroom ("Laundry on the verge of the Uele") Four boys are on the shore of the river washing sheets and other items against boxes. There is also a bucket full of clothes nearby., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the mission agency: "Oeuvre des Vocations et des Missions Dominicaines Roeping- en Missie-werk der EE. PP. Predikheeren. Mission Dominicaine de l'Uele Oriental. Congo Belge Dominikaansche Missie in Belgisch Congo"
"Process #7: These skeins are carefully washed, again in cold water (there is little or no oil in our shansi wool)." Women standing outside in warm clothing. Three of them hold long skeins of yarn over baskets presumably filled with cold water for washing. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.