Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Country folk and their simple chapel. "Country Sunday School - Shaohsing [now Shaoxing] out station about 1940." A group of children and adults is posed in front of a small building., and From the collection of the Hartwell family, American Baptist missionaries serving in China between 1858 and the 1940s.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., An interior view is shown of a one-room Catholic chapel, the altar draped with a white cloth., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting on it, Printed at the bottom of the correspondence section is "Pensionnat du Sacre-Coeur pour jeunes filles indigenes" "Mbansa Mboma (Congo)" "Chapelle provisoire."
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 265 | Folder 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Chapel of the Beatitudes, Chinkiang. The beams and rafters are Chinese vermilion, the wall white, the windows in a small pattern of red and white panes of glass, the Chinese inscriptions in the sanctuary are in gold letters on a background of blue., and Ernest Forster, the photographer, was an American Episcopal missionary.
18. Congo Francais - Chapelle de la Mission de Sainte-Radegonde, dans l'Alima. ("18. French Congo - Chapel of the Mission of Saint-Radegonde, near the Alima river.") A missionary father stands with fourteen indigenous men and women in front of a wooden chapel with a thatched roof. Another missionary father stands on a ladder to the side of the chapel., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Missions Maristes d'Oceanie - Chapelle de lepreux a Makogai (Fidji). ("Marist Mission of Oceania - Chapel of the lepers at Makogai (Fiji).") A white chapel stands near the ocean at a distance from another building smaller in size where a number of men congregate., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information from the publisher: "Soeurs Missionnaires de la Societe de Marie - 5, Chemin du Signal, Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon (Rhone)." The postcard was issued by a Catholic missions agency.