Black and white lantern slides showing scenes of baptism in a river. A minster holds a young man behind his neck whilst both stand in the river. The bank is populated with spectators, including one female and one male European missionary. Wooden flat-bottomed boats sit in the water near the bank. The slide is labelled with "Seymour", who could be the owner, the photographer, or the subject of the slide. 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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