Christmas greetings, Congo, 1929

Tinted lantern slide showing a group of Congolese with three European missionaries. The group is smartly dressed - Congolese men wear shirts (some provided by the Congo Balolo Mission) and women wear dresses in African fabrics. Children wear smocks or shirts and shorts. Children on the front row hold up capital letters spelling "WE GREET YOU." A male European missionary in a shirt and tie stands in the centre of the image, flanked by two female missionaries. The slide is labelled on its underside with: "MR MRS YOUNG", possibly indicating two of the three missionaries in the image - Henry F Young sailed for the Congo in 1913 and was based at Bongandanga. 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.