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English: State officials, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
  • Tinted lantern slide showing a group of Belgian colonialstate officials in the Congo Free State sitting on the porch of a brick building with thatched roof.
  • Congo Balolo Mission missionaries worked in the Congo Free state with the consent of its state officials and its landowners, Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian state after Leopold was forced to cede the land in 1908.
  • 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.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-21.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Public administration; Colonialism
Part of collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Part of subcollection: Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Subject (corporate name): Congo Balolo Mission
Repository name: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Archival file: Volume2/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-21.tif
Repository address: The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
Geographic subject (country): Congo
Format (aacr2): lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
Geographic subject (continent): Africa
Rights: Contact the repository for details.
Part of series: Regions Beyond Missionary Union. Congo Transport and Tinted Slides (CSCNWW33/OS12)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1900/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): group portraits
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: buildings
File: CSCNWW33/OS12/21
Subject (lcsh): Officials and employees
Date 1900/1915 (date created)
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78127
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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