Black and white lantern slide showing the first aeroplane at Basankusu. Basankusu was a major trading centre, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had been the main trading port of the Abir Congo Company, the organisation founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company in charge of the export of rubber from then Congo Free State lands owned by King Leopold II of Belgium. Later, Basankusu became a centre for palm oil production. The aeroplane pictured is a biplane, a fixed wing aircraft design that dominated in the years between 1914 and 1925. 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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