Missionary and group of men, Congo, ca. 1900-1915

Black and white lantern slide showing a group of three Congolese men sitting in bushland. A European missionary, wearing trousers, shirt and pith helmet, can be seen in the background holding the hand of a Congolese boy. The boy wears a shirt and long wrap around his waist, and the men are bare chested and wear short loin cloths. 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.