Tinted lantern slide showing missionary Lily Ruskin at a dispensary run by the Congo Balolo Mission. She wears a white nurse's apron and a wide brimmed hat. The main dispensary building is mud or brick and thatch, whilst there is a shelter alongside with wooden frame and thatched roof. A Congolese man stands behind a table in front of the main dispensary building, and Congolese people form queues in the yard. Lily Ruskin holds a metal bowl, and a Congolese man squats in front of her (possibly in readiness to receive medicine). A chicken can also be seen in the yard. The dispensary may be at Bongandanga, where the missionaries were based, or it may be part of the hospital opened at Baringa by the Congo Balolo Mission, which was opened in 1932. This slide comes from a collection generated by missionaries working for the Congo Balolo Mission, a mission begun in 1889 under the supervision of the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions that developed into the interdenominational evangelical mission Regions Beyond Missionary Union after 1900.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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