"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...
"Missions D'Afrique. 6. Saint-Charles - Au Dispensaire." A missionary helps children and adults outside a dispensary building. The missionary and one child are standing, while the other people sit on a small stone wall. Additional information rea...
"Missions d'Afrique. En Pirogue sur le Lac" Two missionary sisters are being rowed in a long wooden boat across a lake. Several men are in the boat and two other boats are visible. On the back of the postcard is printed "Soeurs Missionnaires de N.-D. ...
"2. Les Mehara - Selles au pommeau touareg à la croix appelées R'Halâas." A man sits on the ground next to another man who is holding the ropes attached to two camels. The man with the ropes is playing a wind instrument. The camels have large saddl...
"13. Ghardaïa. Vue générale prise du Barrage de Mélika." A man and a boy sit on rocks on a mountain, overlooking the desert, a garden, and a city below. The man wears a hat. The tower of the mosque in the town is in clear view.
Subject (Geographic):
Ghardaïa (Algeria)
Subject (Topic):
Indigenous populations; Mosques; Mountains; Urban areas
"Ghardaia [Ghardaïa]. 8. - A roofed street." Two girls are depicted in a covered street. One is sitting on the ground and another leans against the right-hand wall. The street itself has stone steps and the walls and roof are also made of stone. ...
"Mission Des Pères Blancs. - Ouargla [Wargla]. - La ville nouvelle et ses jardins." This aerial view shows a town and its gardens. The gardens are central, and town buildings stand on either side of them. There is a truck on the lefthand side and s...
