Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The postcard was issued by the "Missions des Peres Maristes en Oceanie." ("Missions of the Marist Fathers in Oceania"), a Catholic missions agency. The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information from the publisher: "Sous-Procure des Missions - 6, Rue de Bagneux, Paris-VIe.", and Un bon vieux Canaque de Canala. - Nouvelle-Caledonie. ("A good old Canaque man of Canala. - New Caledonia.") The photograph shows an indigenous man with a beard wearing a dark shirt.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., MISSIONS AFRICAINES, 150, Cours Gambetta, LYON "13. DAHOMEY [Benin] - Feticheur du serpent". A man in a white cap and waist wrap holds a snake around his neck. In the background, large trees can be seen., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "Phototypie Mce LESCUYER, 16, r. des Remparts-d'Ainay, LYON".
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Le Cardinal Lavigerie, par Bonnat- Collections ND Phot Cardinal Lavigerie is sitting down in a chair with books beside him on the floor, and a hat on the table nearby. The photograph is signed "s. Bonnat- 1888", and The back of the postcard has a handwritten note dated 1908.
"Missions Esquimaudes - Serie VII" "Okrotak, catechiste de la Mission de la petite Therese." A man wearing heavy furs smiles as he stands for a photograph. On the back of the postcard is printed "Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculee. Oeuvre des Missions O. M. I. - 75, Rue de l'Assomption - Paris (XVIc) Abonnez-vous aux Petites Annales des Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculee Revue Mensuelle - 10 fr. C. C. 99.99 Paris" and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
A capped male catechist stands before a backdrop of trees. His hands rest on the head of a staff held before him., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed on it is "Ern. Thill, Bruxelles." "51. - JOSEPH, le catechiste de Ryirengere (Urundi [Burundi]). Missions des Peres Blancs."
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 62 | Folder 2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Chang Upei Si at a "farewell recital". She is wearing a traditional Chinese outfit and she is holding a bouquet of flowers., and Frederick Edwards Dilley and his wife, Mary Grace French Dilley, were missionaries for the American Presbyterian Mission, North. They worked in China, 1906-1942. They worked at missions in Peking; Chefoo, Shantung; and in Shansi.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Charles Norris Hartwell, and From the collection of the Hartwell family, American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s. Charles Norris Hartwell was appointed by the Southern Baptist Convention to its North China Mission in 1909, and immediately became principal of the Boys' High School in Hwanghsien. At the time of his death in 1927 he was Dean of North China Baptist College.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Amadi - Chef Madombele-Barambo - Hoofdman Madombele-Barambo ("Chief Madombele-Barambo") The chief is posed outside wearing a dark shirt., and The back of the postcard has a handwritten note in French and contains information about the mission agency: "Oeuvre des Vocations et des Missions Dominicaines Roeping- en Missiewerk der EE. PP. Predikheeren. Mission Dominicaine de l'Uele Oriental. Congo Belge Dominikaansche Missie in Belgisch Congo"
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Cameroun - Un Des Principaux Chefs De Foumban, Avec Une Cotte De Mailles Datant De Temps Tres Anciens ("One of the Principal Chiefs of Foumban with a Coat of Mail Going Back to Very Old Times"). Portrait of a man on the porch of a stone building dressed in an old coat of mail with his head and chest wrapped in white., and The back of the postcard is blank, with a printed address for the publisher: "Societe des Missions Evangeliques, 102, Boulev. Arago, Paris" The Société des Missions Evangéliques was a Protestant organization known in English as the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society.