"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.
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