Black and white lantern slide featuring a European female missionary with a group of Congolese small boys and adolescents. In consultation with other photographs of the period, the female missionary is likely to be a Mrs Stannard. A group of small boys sits in front of Mrs Stannard, wearing loincloths, although two boys wear shirts. Mrs Stannard holds a boy baby on her knee. Four adolescents - three boys and one girl - stand behind her. The group poses in a bushland background. 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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