"8. Missions Africaines de Lyon - 1950, Cours Gambetta, Lyon - Dahomey [now Benin] - Les petits choristes de Porto-Novo" Six young people with lace-decorated tops and skirts pose for the camera.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Jeunes filles chrétiennes. Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame des Apotres - Vénissieux (Rhône)" About twenty young girls, most in native dress, pose for the camera.
"Caconda - Au lavage. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" Four women are using basins and the water of a river or lake to wash clothes. A missionary sister looks on in the background.
"Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame d'Afrique. Saint-Charles Birmandreis (Alger). Afrique Equatoriale - Femmes noires se rendant au travail." Six women walk to work down a dirt road. They are wearing simple clothes and have shaved their heads. On...
"Kabylie. Le dispensaire aux Ouad'hias." A woman pours something into the hands of another woman. The other woman is sitting on a donkey. There are other women and children gathered around in the doorway of this clinic. This postcard was printed ...
"Mahalla (Egypte) - Le Dispensaire. Congrégation des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône). A large group of primarily women and children is gathered in front of a brick building. The women wear robes and hea...
"18. Ghardaia [Ghardaïa] - Rue des Légumes." Men and women walk down a street. On one side of the street a women sits and sells vegetables that look like pumpkins. Some cloth is strung over the street between the buildings that rise up on either si...
Subject (Geographic):
Ghardaïa (Algeria)
Subject (Topic):
Food; Indigenous populations; Roads; Urban areas; Women
"Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame d'Afrique. Saint-Charles Birmandreis (Alger). Femme de chef indigène." The chief's wife poses for the camera in profile. She is wearing a lot of jewelry, a headdress, and traditional clothes.
"Serie III - Egitto - Mercato di villagio" On the back of the postcard is printed: "A beneficio dell' Associazione Nazionale per soccorrer I Missionari italiani (riconosciuta in Ente Morale - Segretariato Generale: Torino , Via Accademia delle Scienz...