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Title	Mother and child, Africa, ca.1920-1940
Description	A mother is in the forest, wearing traditional clothing and a head dressing, carrying her baby on her back secured by a cloth.; The back of the postcard is blank with a caption and printed information about the mission agency: "Mother and child in West Africa. - Baby is safe and comfortable and well out of the busy mother's way. Notice how strong and tall and well-built the woman is. Nowhere in the world has woman more freedom, or makes more energetic use of it, than in some parts of West Africa.- W.M.M.S. Postcards. Series O."
Subject (aat)	group portraits
Subject (unesco)	Women Indigenous populations Fashions
Geographic subject (continent)	Africa
Coverage date	1920/1940
Photographer	Unidentified
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1920/1940
Type	images
Previous format (aacr2)	photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
Format (aat)	photographs
Legacy record ID	impa-m14114
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/RG101/018/0000/0123
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-RG101-018-0000-0123
Archival file	impa_Volume243/IMP-YDS-RG101-018-0000-0123.tiff

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