Black and white lantern slide of a steam locomotive pulling cargo on the Cape to Cairo railway line. A man in European dress stands with his back to the camera in the foreground of the image. The Cape to Cairo Railway was a project envisaged by businessman, politician and magnate Sir Cecil Rhodes (who founded the diamond company DeBeers), and was begun in the late nineteenth century. The railway was planned to cross Africa from Cape Town to Cairo in an attempt to connect British territories across the continent. The project was never completed in its entireity, with lines missing between northern Sudan and Uganda. 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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