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Title	An indigenous catechist and his family, Benin, ca. 1900-1930
Description	"34. - AFRIQUE. - Pierre Claver, Catechiste du DAHOMEY, avec sa famille - Missions des PP. des Missions Africaines de Lyon." ("Pierre Claver, Catechist of DAHOMEY, with his family.") A Dahomean husband and wife are seated next to one another in front of a stone house, each holding an infant in their laps. Around them stand their other six children, four boys and two girls. Postcard issued by the "Coll. Propagation de la Foi."; The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the publisher: "L'Oeuvre de la Propagation de la Foi soutient les Missions Catholiques du monde entier - Envoyer votre offrande par Cheques Postaux, Paris 618.25, Lyon 72.71 - Propagation de la Foi, Paris: bien noter nouvelle adresse: 5, rue Monsieur (VIIe), Lyon-12, rue Sala." ("The Work of the Propagation of the Faith supports the Catholic Missions of the whole world - To send your offering by Postal cheques, Paris 618.25, Lyon 72.71 - Propagation of the Faith, Paris: to note a new address: 5, rue Monsieur (VIIe), Lyon-12, rue Sala.")
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Missionary work Family Indigenous populations
Geographic subject	(city)
Geographic subject (country)	Benin
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1900/1930
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1900/1930
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic postcards, 9 x 14 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m12659
Part of collection	International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection	Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Part of series	Yale Divinity Library Special Collections; Missionary Postcard Collection
File	YDS/RG101/006/0000/0030
Rights	Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Access conditions	http://www.library.yale.edu/div/reproductions.html
Repository name	Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Repository address	Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Repository email	Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Filename	IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0030
Archival file	impa_Volume205/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0030.tiff

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