"Eritrea - Scuola d'Arti e Mestieri 'S. Michele' a Saganeiti (62)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: Vi si insegnano le lingue italiana, tigrigna e america, geografia, aritmetica, dattilografia, fotografia ed I mestieri del sarto, del sellato, ...
"Eritrea - Pellegrini in viaggio per la Mecca (132)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Il pellegrinaggio alla Mecca costituisce per coloro che lo compiono altre che il compito di un dovere religious, anche un titolo d'onore e di privilegio." M...
"Eritrea - Costume delle madri abissine (98)" Printed on the back of the postcard is: " I bimbi sono portali anzichè in braccio, in una specie di sacco di pelle guarnito di conchigliete, portato sui dorso dalle madri e dove passano tutta la giornata."...
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna -Fiori della vita e fiori digiardino - Dalta scuola alla chiesa d'Asmara" Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in...
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna -Un gruppo d'Orfanelli di Cheren [Keren]." Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, America....
"Africa (Eritrea) Missione delle Figlie di S. Anna - Il Saluto della Scuola d'Asmara al tricolore." Printed on the back of the postcard is: "Figlie di S. Anna - Associazione fondata nel 1866, conta oggi più di 10,000 suore, in Europa, Asia, Africa, Am...
"Collège Saint-Marc - Alexandrie (Egypte). -7. Salle des Professeurs" The staff room in the Collège Saint Marc contains many individual wooden desks with lamps and chairs. It is a spacious room with high ceilings.
"Serie IV - Egitto - Canale" 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 Scienze)" Three woode...
"Series III - Egitto - Villaggio di contadini" 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 Sci...
"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...
"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...
"Colonies Françaises. Dahomey [now Benin] - Eglise de Porto-Novo" A few people are sitting on the front steps of a Western-style church that hascross-topped pointed façade and a round window above an arched door.
"Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon. Dahomey [now Benin] - Eglise d'Athiémé." The congregation is standing in front of a Western-style church with a tall cross-topped tower in front.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Temple des serpents à Ouidah" Printed on the back is "No. 3 - Verlag der Kathol. Mission in Lome" The temple is a long low building with thatched roof. Thatched round huts are connected by rooms with lower roofs.
"Missions Africaines, 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon. Dahomey [now Benin] - Temple des serpents à Ouidah." A long low building with thatched roof is shown amidst some trees. Several men stand in front.
"Dahomey [now Benin] - Ouidah - La Cathédrale - De ce côte-ci de la place se trouve le grand temple du Serpent pithon, principal fétiche du pays." A large Western-style church with central tower is portrayed.
"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.
"Congrégtion des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône). Le déjeuner des Internes à Porto-Novo (Dahomey) [now Benin]"
"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.
"Le P. Borghero des Missions Africaines de Lyon, premier missionarie au Dahomey [now Benin] est reçu par le roi Gléglé. Exposition Coloniale 1931 - Section des Missions Africaines - 150, Cours Gambetta, Lyon" The exhibit portrays a missionary priest...
"Agoué (Dahomey) [now Benin] - Jeunes filles noires faisant la dentelle au fuseau. Congrégation des Soeurs de N.-D. des Apotres pour les Missions Africaines - Vénissieux (Rhône)" Four young girls are making lace with a bobbin as a missionary sister l...
"Exposition Coloniale 1931 - Section des Missions Africaines - 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon - Reconstitution d'une leçon de catéchisme au Dahomey [now Benin]" The exhibit portrays several natives being taught by a missionary priest. A thatched roof build...
"2969 - Rép. Centre Africaine - Bangui - La Cathédrale" A large Western-style church has towers on either side of a center section with peaked roof and arched doors and windows.
"Mission d'Ouagadougou (Hte. Volta) [Burkina Faso] 6. Tambourinier" A man wearing a straw skirt is playing a round drum that appears to be made from a gourd or calabash.
"Missions Des Pères Blancs - Bobo Dioulasso - Village de Koro sur les rochers" A man and three boys are sitting and standing on a hillside of large striated boulders.
"Bobo Dioulasso - Haute Vola (A.O.F.) [Burkina Faso] No. 1 - L'Eglise" A rectangular building made of brick or stone has dual stairways meeting under an arched window and an arched door on ground level.
"1, Bénin - Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur à Abéokuta. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" [now Nigeria] A large building made of brick or stone has arched windows and flat roofs on various levels.
"5. Bénin - Eglise d'Idjébu Odé. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" A Western-style church with a bell tower is show with a few people seated in front of it. A two-storey building with porches is in the background.
"10. Bénin - Mission de Stupaji. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" Two missionary fathers and a few natives are standing in front of two large thatched roof buildings.
"2. Bénin - Eglise d'Ikiré - Jour de Confirmation. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" A congregation of approximatelyl forty people stands in front of a rectangular building with a thatched roof. Two missionary fathers stand in front of t...
"7. Bénin - Eglise d'Eruku. Missions Africaines, 150 Cours Gambetta, Lyon" Approximately thirty men and women are posed in front of a building that has an irregularly shaped thatched roof and a cross on top. A missionary father with pith helmet sta...
"Angola - Congrégation des Soeurs indigènes dirigée par les Soeurs de Sait [Saint]-Joseph de Cluny" Eleven indigenous sisters and two missionary sisters are posed in an outdoor setting with a statue of Mary in the background.
"Interior da Igreja de N. a Sr. a das Victorias - Huambo" An elaborate altar is set behind a railing in a church with a high ceiling, arched windows, and vaulted roof.
"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.
"Benguella [Benguela]. Escola-régia - A primeira Communhão em 1908." A large group of children poses for the camera with a hut on a tall platform in the background. The girls wear white dresses and headcoverings.
"Caconda - En classe - Soeur Indigène. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" The children are sitting at bench desks looking at books while an indigenous sister and missionary sister look on. There is an easel or blackboard in the...
"La caravane du Missionnaire - Reseferlige Missionskarawane (Angola)" A missionary priest in a pith helmet stands in from of a thatched roof hut with several porters carrying loads on their heads. Additional luggage is on the ground.
"Angola. Filant la toile pour la Mission. Congrégation de Saint Joseph de Cluny, 21, Rue Méchain, Paris" Two nuns and several young women are using hand-held sticks to spin fibers into thread.
"6. Le premier signe de la croix d'une petite Angolaise" A missionary priest is sitting on a chair showing a small girl how to hold her hands to make the sign of the cross. A thatched-roof hut is in the background.
"Angola - Postulante Indigène enseignant la prière. Congrégation de S'Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" A woman with striped dress and headcovering is kneeling at right with her hands together in prayer. More than twenty children face her in t...
"Missão Catolica do Bailundo (Angola)" A man appears to be cutting up an animal with a knife while members of a family look on, kneeling and standing in front of a hut with thatched roof. There is a large pot and some firewood in the foreground.
"6. Angola Mission de Malange. La Fanfare du Frére Aimé. Missions des Peres du Saint-Esprit 30, Rue Lhomond, Paris" A priest holding a trumpet is surrounded by several young men and boys holding instruments.
"Missão Catolica do Bailundo (Angola)" Native men are sitting on bench desks facing the front of what appears to be a school room. Three teachers are in the front.
"Angola - Leçon de Catéchisme dans un Village paien. Congrégation de St. Joseph de Cluny, 21 Rue Méchain, Paris" A European missionary sister sits before a group of natives explaining a large poster of Christ carrying his cross while an indigenous mis...
"Catete Missão Americana" A large group of natives, with three missionaries in the back, is posed in front of a building with a thatched and metal roof, possibly the church.
"Malgré le zèle des Missionnaires, leurs efforts ne produiront jamais de fruits suffisants si'ls ne sont aidés par des femmes apôtres qui, seuls, peuvent approcher librement des femmes infidèles et leur faire comprendre leur profond abaissement par le...
"3. Algérie - Witte Zusters op ziekenbezoek bij de Muzulmannen. Soeurs Blanches en visite dans une famille musulmane" Four missionary sisters stand with a group of children in front of a thatched-roof house.
"Campement de Nomades" Three tents are set on flat ground with several people and dogs around them. Printed on the back of the postcard is "Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre-Dame d'Afrique (Soeurs Blanches) Birmandreis (Alger)"
"Missions d'Afrique. "Maison Mère des Soeurs Missionnaires de N-D d'Afrique - Interieur de la Chapelle" The interior of a church with a high arched ceiling is shown facing the altar. "On the back of the postcard is printed "Soeurs Missionnaires de N-D...