Missionaries with villagers, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-18)

Missionaries with villagers, Congo, ca. 1900-1915
Vividly tinted lantern slide showing a posed group of native Congolese with male and female European missionaries, in Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
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.
Photographer: Unknown
Filename: IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-18.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Missionary work
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-OS12-18.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: [email protected]
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: populated places
File: CSCNWW33/OS12/18
Subject (lcsh): Crowds; Missionaries