Keywords: Congolese women and female missionary, Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS12-29).jpg Congo Balolo Mission Congo present day Democratic Republic of the Congo Only a few Congolese women wear smock dresses the remainder wear traditional wraps or are bare-chested There are also a few men in the group The Congolese women have had their lips tinted bright red which has not happened to the men in the group or the female missionary Work amongst women was very important to the Congo Balolo Mission in its early days and was started in 1899 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-OS12-29 tif Coverage date 1900/1915 Subject unesco Women 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-OS12-29 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 populated places File CSCNWW33/OS12/29 Subject lcsh Women missionaries; Women; Portraits group 1900/1915 date created author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78128 PD-old-70-1923 Congo-Balolo Mission Women of Africa People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1910s History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1910s Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 |