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Title
Village gathering, Congo, ca. 1920-1930
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white lantern slide showing a posed group in a Congolese village. The group is made up of men, women and children. Many of the women in the group wear head-wraps, whilst only a few men wear Western style hats. A Congolese man stands to the rear of the group (which is otherwise sitting). He wears a wide brimmed hat, shirt and trousers, and may be a Christian teacher or leader. 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.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-30.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77825
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS11-30.jpg
Subject
Christianity
Religious groups
Congo Balolo Mission
Men
Women
Portraits, group
Christians
Protestants
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Africa
Congo
populated places
Source
CSCNWW33/OS11/30 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo People and Places (CSCNWW33/OS11)

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