Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Container / Volume:
Box 414 | Folder 5873
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Teachers and Pupils Arts College D.V.B.S 1926 A large group, primarily young Chinese boys, posed for photo on the front stairs of a building. To the back are older Chinese boys, as well as along the side. To the left of the photo are three Chinese women, one older and two younger.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., DAHOMEY - Cathedrale de Ouidah. ("Cathedral of Ouidah.") Approximately fifty children stand in ten or more single file lines in front of a large stone cathedral. Postcard issued by "Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon.", and The back of the postcard is blank.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Madagascar - Ils ont bien mange Eighteen young Madagascan boys pose in the midst of their village. Various thatched roof houses are visible in the background along with a woman standing in a doorway. Postcard issued by the "Missions des Lazaristes.", and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about the mission agency: "Les Missions des Lazaristes et des Filles de la Charite - Organe mensuel - de l'Oeuvre du Bienheureux Jean-Gabriel Perboyre - en faveur des missions les plus necessiteuses - Un an : France, 10 fr. - Etranger 15 fr. - Adresser les offrandes a M le Directeur de l'Oeuvre du Bx Perboyre - 95 Rue de Severes - Paris (6e) - Cheque Post. no 285 88." ("Missions of Lazaristes and the Girls of Charity - monthly Body - Work of the Blessed Jean-Gabriel Perboyre - in favour of the neediest missions - One year: France, 10 FR. - Foreigner 15 FR. - Address the offerings to M the Director of the Work of Bx Perboyre - 95 Rue de Severes - Paris (6e) - Post Cheque. No 285 88.")
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., The back of the postcard is blank and contains a printed title: "Missions Maristes D'Oceanie - 7 - Petits patissiers caledoniens." ("Marist Missions Of Oceania - 7 - Small caledonian pastrycooks.") The back also contains information from the publisher: "Editions Procure, 123, Chemin de Choulans, Lyon." The Marists were a Catholic missions agency., and Two indigenous boys sit on the ground mixing food in a bowl with their hands.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., MISSIONS AFRICAINES, 150, cours Gambetta, LYON. Four young Catholic catechumens in patterned wraps stand outside of a mud building., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed over the whole of the back of the postcard is"Missions Africaines de Lyon. En 1856 Mgr de Marion Bresillac fonde cette Societe qui depuis 100 ans evangelise le pourtour du golfe de Guinee: Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Gold Coast, Togo, dahomey, Nigeria ainsi que l'Egypte et le Congo Belge. Les premiers Missionaires (1856) , trouvent un paysn ou regnent le fetichisme, l'esclavage ; des sacrifices humains sont offerts aux dieux. Aucune ecole, pas un seul chretien, pas un seul pretre. A peine cent ans plus tard, grace a la generosite, souvent teintee du sang des Missionnaires, on compte 1,200,000 chretiens, 300,000 ecoliers de la Mission catholique, 109 pretres noirs. Des hopitaux, des dispensaires, des asiles, des pouponnieres sont la pour secourir toutes les miseres." Further text is obscured by a stamp reading "PROCURE DES MISSIONS AFRICAINES (Loire-Interieure) Tel. 162-66 C. C. P. Nantes 261-54.
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., DAHOMEY - Adohoun - La Chapelle-Ecole ou le Pere en visite couche et dit la messe et ou 100 jeunes catechumenes viennent au catechisme et en classe de francais. Several dozen young men stand outside of a thatch-roofed building. Another building is visible in the background., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "EDWARD SANDERS, MISSAO INGLEZA, BIE ANGOLA".
Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., Tahiti - Ecole des Jeunes Filles de Papeete. ("Tahiti - Girls School of Papeete.") Seventy-one children and four adults pose for a photograph in front of a two-story building with a metal roof. Most of the children are Tahitian, some are European., and The back of the postcard is blank and contains printed information about 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.
48. Daughter of a Chief, Bie. A young female child with a hesitant expression stands before a tree. She wears a waist wrap and an anklet., Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard has no handwriting. Printed at the edge of the correspondence section is "EDWARD SANDERS, MISSAO INGLEZA, BIE ANGOLA".
26. Congo Francais - Ecole des Filles. ("26. French Congo - School of the Girls.") Four missionary sisters and forty indigenous girls stand in front of a brick school house. Many of the girls wear matching skirts. Postcard issued by the "Mission Catholique de Brazzaville.", Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive., and The back of the postcard is blank.
