African Missions Postcard collection

The African Missions Postcards collection documents numerous catholic and protestant religious orders conducting missionary works on the African continent. Some of the earliest missionaries arrived in Africa in the late 1850s and many of these orders are still in operation today. Religious orders include both catholic and protestant denominations and then are separated by gender. A small number of cards refer to the anniversary of Angola's independence and pro-communist propaganda. The captions on the majority of the postcards are in Dutch and French.