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English: Cape to Cairo Ry., Congo, ca. 1900-1915
  • Black and white lantern slide of a steam locomotive pulling cargo on the Cape to Cairo Railway line.
  • A man in European dress stands with his back to the camera in the foreground of the image, in Belgian colonial Congo Free State or post-1908 Belgian Congo (present day Democratic Republic of the Congo).
  • The Cape to Cairo Railway was a project envisaged by businessman, politician and magnate Sir Cecil Rhodes (who founded the diamond company DeBeers), and was begun in the late nineteenth century.
  • The railway was planned to cross Africa (north/south) from the Cape (South Africa) to the Mediterranean coast (Alexandria, Egypt) in an attempt to connect British territories across the continent. The project was never completed in its entireity, with lines missing between northern Sudan and Uganda.
  • 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-OS10-82.tif
Coverage date: 1900/1915
Subject (unesco): Trains; Railway transport
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-OS10-82.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 Lantern Slides (CSCNWW33/OS10)
Repository email: divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
Date created: 1900/1915
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Subject (aat genre): exterior views
Format (aat): lantern slides; photographs
Access conditions: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/research/centres/world-christianity/collections-resources
Geographic subject: railroad features
File: CSCNWW33/OS10/82
Subject (lcsh): Steam locomotives; Railroads
Date between 1900 and 1915
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1915-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78085
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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