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Mission nurses at a dispensary prepare to treat a teenager, Toma, Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), early 20th century

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Two White nun nurses and an African male assistant tend to an African boy as another boy looks on.

  • Topic:

    Colonialism

  • Publisher:

    G. L. Arlaud, Lyon, France
  • Two White nun nurses and an African male assistant tend to an African boy as another boy looks on.

  • Back of postcard has section for handwritten note.

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    Soudan Français et Haute-Volta (A. O. F.)
    Haute-Volta-A la porte du dispensaire de Toma-La Soeur infirmiere se dispose à extraire un ver de Guinée infectant la jambe d'un juene négre

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    French Sudan and Upper Volta (A. O. F.)
    Upper-Volta-At the door of the Toma dispensary-A nursing Nun is preparing to extract a Guinea Worm from the infected leg of a young negro

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