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Title
Hospital building. Early view, Congo, ca. 1925-1935
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1925/1935
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 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.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-77.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78081
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-77.jpg
Subject
Building operations
Hospitals
Building
Building sites
Congo Balolo Mission
Exterior views
Time Period
1925/1935
Place
Africa
Congo
medical facilities
Source
CSCNWW33/OS10/77 [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 Lantern Slides (CSCNWW33/OS10)

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