"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 headcoverings. A missionary sister stands behind a table that holds various bottles.
"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 in Brussels, Belgium.
"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. One is carrying a basket and the others carry sticks. There is a thatched-roof building next to them.
"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.
"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.
"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.
