Black and white lantern slide of the construction process during the building of a hospital for the Congo Balolo Mission. A bearded European missionary stands inside the partially built structure, whist another male missionary stands at the corner of the foundations. Native Congolese workers stand in the background. The hospital is being built from brick, with a wooden inner structure. By 1905, the Congo Balolo Mission had built at least seven hospitals. When missionaries first arrived in the Congo, they performed all manual labour by their own hands, since native Congolese were not trained in European building methods. However, a native labour force was soon established after being trained in construction skills with European tools. This hospital may be the Baringa Hospital, which was founded 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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