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Center for Religion & Civic Culture

Voice of America Features IMPA

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The Voice of America featured the International Mission Photography Archive, a joint initiative of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the USC Digital Library.

"Online Archive Preserves Images from Christian Missions in Africa, Asia"
Michael O'Sullivan.

"An ambitious Internet project is bringing to light forgotten images from Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world during the period when missionaries were active. The International Mission Photography Archive contains more than 60,000 historic photographs that show cultural interaction - through missionaries - with the West. In some cases, the pictures provide surprising insights."