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Title
Baptism in river, Congo, ca. 1920-1930
Creator
Seymour
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
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 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.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-6.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78028
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-6.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Religion
Religious activities
Congo Balolo Mission
Missionaries
Baptism
Exterior views
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Africa
Congo
rivers
Source
CSCNWW33/OS10/6 [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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