Women tending infants indoors, Morocco, ca. 1920-1940

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Title: Women tending infants indoors, Morocco, ca. 1920-1940
Published / Created: 1920-1940
Publication Place: Oudjda, Morocco, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
Les franciscaines missionnaires de Marie en Mission - Oudjda (Maroc [Morocco]). "A la goutte de lait." A group of women including a pair of Catholic missionary sisters are gathered around a woman seated on a bench and holding an infant. One of the missionary sisters holds a bottle. Another woman stands nearby with a toddler on her back.
The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the margin is "Les Fransicaines Missionnaires de Maire" "ont actuellement en pays de mission 145 maisons avec 156 ecoles plus 389 oeuvres pour l'enfance groupant 56,000 enfants. Elles ont en outre pour les malades 47 hopitaux avec 71,000 malades hospitalises dans l'annee : 7 leproseries avec 1,507 lepreux, 8 lazarets avec 1,873 contagieux et 107 dispensaires ou 2,100,000 soins ont ete donnes en 1926."

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection / Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 15

Access: Public
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