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Communications from the Field: Missionary Postcards from Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Martha Lund Smalley
Martha Lund Smalley*
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Curator of the Day Missions Collection Yale University Divinity School Library
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Over the past five years, the Yale University Divinity School Library has been acquiring a significant collection of postcards that document missionary work in Africa and Asia. The majority of these postcards have been made available by one vendor who has scoured flea markets and used books stores through Europe. The collection of more than 4,000 postcards complements other holdings in the Yale Divinity Library's Day Missions Collection. The Day Missions Collection makes up approximately one third of the Divinity Library's 500,000 volumes, and constitutes the bulk of its manuscript and archival collection. Since its foundation in 1892, the collection's scope has enlarged from a fairly narrow focus on training missionaries to become one of the preeminent collections documenting the thought, history, and practice of world Christianity.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 104 , 2007 , pp. 15 - 27
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Copyright © International African Institute 2007

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