Black and white lantern slide featuring a two deck paddle steamer docking at the side of a river in the Congo. Passengers can be seen on the lower deck, and figures wait on the river bank. The paddle steamer may be the S.S Livingstone, a passenger steamer run by the Congo Balolo Mission that travelled from Kinshasa (then Leopoldville) to Brazzaville. The boat was built and tested in Ireland. 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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