<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Girls in a courtyard with their sewing projects, Benin, ca. 1900-1930</dc:title><dc:date>1900-1930</dc:date><dc:description>Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.</dc:description><dc:description>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)."</dc:description><dc:description>The back of the postcard is blank.</dc:description><dc:format>still image</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>