Girls in a courtyard with their sewing projects, Benin, ca.1900-1930

"DAHOMEY - Agoue - Le travail manuel." ("Manual work.") In a courtyard, thirty-four Dahomean girls and three missionary sisters pose in a semicircle each holding different sewing projects. In the foreground to the left, one girl sits at a sewing table and sews a pattern into a piece of fabric. Postcard issued by the "Soeurs Missionnaires de Notre Dame des Apotres - Venissieux (Rhone)."; The back of the postcard is blank