Black and white lantern slide showing a group of Congolese men and boys in a group portrait around a sign written on a blackboard with chalk. The sign reads: "OUR THANKS TO FIELD LANE INST FOR FOOTBALLS." The sign refers to a gift from the Field Lane organisation, which was founded in 1841 as the Field Lane Sabbath School in Caroline Hill, London. With further funding, the organisation expanded in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries, offering day schools, training institutes, shelters for destitute women and evening classes. It became the Field Lane Foundation in 1972. 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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