Black and white lantern slide showing a group of six young girls standing on a piece of flat grassland. They are supervised by a young Congolese woman. One of the girls is European, whilst the five remaining girls are Congolese. The European girl is the only one to wear a hat. Two bent sets of football goalposts can be seen in the background, and one small girl rests a ball at her feet. The girls all wear short dresses. 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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