"Maison-Carrée (Algerie). Maison-Mère des Pères Blancs." There is a beautiful garden in front of the Mother House of the White Fathers. A man stands in the middle of the garden. The central part of the buidling is a church with a steeple. There is a cross on top of the steeple. The building then forms a "u" shape around the viewer. This postcard has been colorized. There is a handwritten note on the back of the card.
"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." A young Abyssinian woman is carrying her infant is decorated sling on her back.
"Soeurs Missionnaires De Notre-Dame D'Afrique. Soeurs Blanches Du Cardinal La Vigerie. Noviciat et Maison Mère à St-Charles par Birmandreïs-Alger." Gardens and fields surround the motherhouse and novitiate of the White Sisters. Their buidling is quite large, with many layers. There are smaller outlying buidlings around the main complex. There is a small map of the area printed on the back of this postcard.
"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)"
"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. Fa opera di assistenze cristiana e umniaris in Ospedali, Case di Salue, Ricoveri, Manicomi, Carceri, Lazzaretti, Lebbrosal, ecc. - Si dedica al l'educazione cristiana, morale e civile in Asili d'Infanzia, Laboratori, Collegi, Pensionati, Instituti di Ciechi, Sordomuti, ecc. - Ha Misisnoi in Palestina, Eritrea e nell'America Meridionale. La Casa Generilizia in Roma 'Collegio Internazionale per le Missioni' Via Merulana 177" Approximately twenty young children are kneeling in front of an enclosed area that has a statue of a saint in a niche. A missionary sister looks on.
"16. Beni-Isguen - Minaret et Tour." Men, women, and children are gathered together in front of some stone structures. Two men are riding camels. One of them holds a rifle. In the distance is the tower of a mosque. They are in the desert.
"In de Kasbah te Algiers." Men and women walk down a street in the Kasbah region of the city of Algiers. The narrow street has steps in it and there are tall buidlings on either side.
