Vividly tinted lantern slide showing a posed group of native Congolese with male and female European missionaries. Most of the Congolese sit on the ground - those sitting wear traditional dress. A few Congolese men wear Western suits, and sit or stand to the side of the main group, or stand at the back of the image behind a small group of missionaries. They may be native evangelists or Christain converts. Two European female missionaries sit to the side of the group on chairs next to a native evangelist, and two male missionaries sit to the backk of a group, behind a clothed table. 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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