Antique RPPC Africa Banner Missionary Training Group Nyack CMA 1910s Black Power

Original real photo postcard showing a large missionary-training cohort posed outdoors before an institutional building, centered on a prominent "AFRICA" banner with continent silhouette. The image aligns closely with early 20th-century materials associated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) and its well-known New York training program founded by A. Simpson to prepare workers for overseas service. Simpson's school-known in its early decades as the Missionary Training Institute-began in New York City in the early 1880s and later relocated to South Nyack, New York, becoming widely identified with "Nyack" and the Alliance's missionary preparation work. The Alliance's own history stresses that the institute trained men and women for international assignments, which fits the mixed-gender, formal cohort presentation seen here.

An unusually direct and graphic mission-themed piece with strong crossover appeal for collectors of early American religious history, Protestant missions, and institutional/college photography. Format: Real Photo Postcard (RPPC).

Theme: Africa missions / missionary training. Association: Christian & Missionary Alliance / "Nyack" (attributed).

Corner loss: upper-left corner broken off/missing. General edge/corner wear, light surface wear and age toning.