Missionary sister teaching girls, Toamasina, Madagascar, ca. 1900-19301900-1930Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.TAMATAVE Lecon de Catechisme aux petites filles Malgaches se preparant au bapteme ("Lesson of Catechism to the small Malagasy girls preparing them for baptism"). In a courtyard, a missionary sister uses large pictures on an easel to teach a group of twenty indigenous girls all dressed in white. In the background the buildings surrounding the courtyard are visible. Postcard issued by the "Collection de L'oeuvre de la Sainte Enfance - 44, rue du Cherche-Midi - Paris (6e)."The back of the postcard is blank and contains information about the publisher: "L'Oeuvre de la Saint-Enfance baptise chaque annee pres de 500.000 petits infideles. Elle en eleve pres de 700.000" ("The Work of Saint-Childhood baptizes each year nearly 500,000 indigenous children. It brings up nearly some 700,000").still image