Mission Photograph Album - Europe #02 Page 0003

Mission Photograph Album - Europe #02 Page 0003

1900-1930

Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Missions

Europe

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The General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church

17795, 17796, and 17797 no caption

20144 Bulgarian women with crosses on their foreheads. In some villages all women are thus branded as soon as they become attractive, the cross excites disgust in the Turk and prevents the woman from being abducted for Turkish harms.

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