Class of boys exercising, Congo, ca. 1920-1930

Black and white lantern slide showing a class of small boys exercising in a Congo mission institution. The small boys all hold poles above their heads. A European male missionary instructor stands to the side of the class, holding a wooden pole, and wears light trousers, shirt and a tie. 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.