Girls in a courtyard with their sewing projects, Benin, ca. 1900-1930

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Title: Girls in a courtyard with their sewing projects, Benin, ca. 1900-1930
Published / Created: 1900-1930
Publication Place: Benin, Africa
Description: Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
DAHOMEY - Agoue - Le travail manuel. ("Manual work.") In a courtyard, thirty-four Dahomean girls and three missionary sisters pose in a semicircle each holding different sewing projects. In the foreground to the left, one girl sits at a sewing table and sews a pattern into a piece of fabric. Postcard issued by the "Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre Dame des Apotres - Venissieux (Rhone)."
The back of the postcard is blank.
Extent: 9 x 14.25 cm.

Repository: Yale Divinity Library
Collection Title: Missionary Postcard Collection
Collection/Other Creator: Yale Divinity Library Special Collections. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
Collection Date: 1880-1950
Container / Volume: Box 6

Access: Public
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