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D29.1_006708 Congo Mission Slide #4

Item Reference: 006708
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 5a: “Mr. and Mrs. Lewis travelling; halt on the road”
Date: 1890s
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Group of people in tent in jungle — D29.1_006708_1

D29.1_006707 Congo Mission Slide #3

Item Reference: 006707
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 5: “Underhill”
Date: 1890s
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D29.1_006706 Congo Mission Slide #2

Item Reference: 006706
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 4: “Underhill, Sundwa [?], Lower Congo”
Date: 1890s
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View of hill above a river valley — D29.1_006706_1

D29.1_006705 Congo Mission Lantern Slide #1

Item Reference: 006705
Category: Lantern Slides
Format: Slide
Description: Labelled as slide no. 2: “Hammock [?]”
Date: 1890s
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Group of people carrying hammock outside building — D29.1_006705_1

Box D29.2: Congo Mission Slides #2

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Portrait of Reverend Weeks, with short hair and handlebar moustache — D29.2_006805_2

Mrs Weeks with local girls assembled outside the girls school — D29.2_006806_2

Portrait of Reverend Stonelake, short hair with short moustache — D29.2_006807_2

A local warrior with spear and long shield — D29.2_006808_2

A low-ceiling straw-roofed house with locals sat outside — D29.2_006809_2

A view of damaged village waterside houses 'after a fight with the state' — D29.2_006810_2

Locals assembling sugar cane under a tree for beer brewing — D29.2_006811_2

Locals brewing sugar cane beer using simple methods — D29.2_006812_2

Locals demonstrating a method of execution, with one person lying prostrate and another wielding a khopesh sword behind their neck — D29.2_006813_2

Locals with a canoe on a riverbank — D29.2_006814_2

Drawn portrait of a local man — D29.2_006815_2

View of fishing boats assembled on a riverbank — D29.2_006817_2

View of small houses and shed with locals assembled under — D29.2_006818_2

An assembled group of local warriors with spears and shields — D29.2_006819_2

View of a funeral dance — D29.2_006820_2

A wide view of a wrestling match by a riverside, surrounded by a circle of locals — D29.2_006822_2

Locals assembled watching a female dancer with headdress — D29.2_006823_2

View of a female dancer decorated with white markings and headdress — D29.2_006824_2

A group of girls in dancing dress (white hats and scarfs) — D29.2_006825_2

A group of missionaries and local children assembled on the side of a mound — D29.2_006826_2

A mealtime treat for local schoolchildren, assembled on a riverside — D29.2_006827_2

Closeup of the facial scarification of a local man — D29.2_006828_2

View of a canoe heading down a wide river — D29.2_006829_2

View through a crude wooden fence — D29.2_006830_2

View or a lightning bolt striking distant ground across a wide river on a stormy night — D29.2_006831_2

A view over the low roofs to a village courtyard — D29.2_006832_2

Local men carving handles and blades for various knives — D29.2_006833_2

View of a palisade amongst the jungle — D29.2_006834_2

A small hut wall demonstrating local architectural decorative practices (including painting simple figures) — D29.2_006835_2

Wide view of the village of Ngombe, with huts and yards — D29.2_006836_2

View from atop a hill of a jungle landscape and wide river — D29.2_006837_2

A large anthill, possibly the height of a person — D29.2_006838_2

View of a fruit tree in a village yard — D29.2_006839_2

A paddle-steamer ship leaving with locals assembled on the riverbank — D29.2_006840_2

Long fishing canoes assembled on a riverbank — D29.2_006841_2

View of many long canoe fishing boats — D29.2_006842_2

Locals assembled outside a single-storey house, an 'Arab divan' — D29.2_006844_2

Nets and canoes assembled on a steep riverbank — D29.2_006845_2

View of an array of huts in a village — D29.2_006846_2

Reverend White in a small hut — D29.2_006848_2

Missionaries and locals assembled outside a couple of huts — D29.2_006849_2

Local children and missionaries assembled under a school hut — D29.2_006850_2

View of white water rapids — D29.2_006851_2

A group of Arabs, missionaries and State officials assembled in front of a hut — D29.2_006852_2

View of wooden frames over a rocky river — D29.2_006853_2

Map of the Congo region — D29.2_006854_2

Box D29.1: Congo Mission Slides #1

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Portrait of Three Missionaries — D29.1_006709

2 people sit on a hill in a jungle — D29.1_006710

Wooden bridge over a river — D29.1_006711

A market in an open field — D29.1_006712

Missionaries and a group of locals eating together — D29.1_006713

A river with boats and locals on either side — D29.1_006714

A grave made of a pile of stones — D29.1_006718

View of the entrance to a wooden bridge — D29.1_006719

Locals holding an ivory tusk with a Dutch trader — D29.1_006720

Large one-storey house with veranda — D29.1_006721

Portrait of Reverend Stephens, well dressed in suit with short hair and moustache — D29.1_006722

View of a wide river with a distant canoe boat in the middle — D29.1_006723

Brickmakers by a brick house — D29.1_006725

Drawn portrait of a local child — D29.1_006726

Drawn portrait of a local with scarification — D29.1_006727

Raised single-storey house with veranda — D29.1_006728

View of a paddle steamer boat — D29.1_006729

Mission house with veranda — D29.1_006730

Reverend and Mrs Harrison with local children — D29.1_006731

Reverend White with local boys — D29.1_006732

Two parallel canoes race each other — D29.1_006733

View of a paddle steamer ship — D29.1_006734

Wooden house in a village — D29.1_006736

Mr and Mrs Scrivener with local boys and girls — D29.1_006737

A local chief with his wives in a village courtyard — D29.1_006738

Portrait of Mr and Mrs Howell with servants — D29.1_006739

View of Mrs Howell's living room with rugs, religious messages on the wooden walls and a small piano — D29.1_006740

View of a double-decked steam paddle ship — D29.1_006741

A small dockyard boathouse with a rail leading to the water — D29.1_006742

View of the boundary of a mission house — D29.1_006743

A small wooden shack with a chicken in front — D29.1_006745

Locals pictured through an overhead frame of passionfruit plants — D29.1_006746

A raised single-storey house on a hillside with veranda — D29.1_006747

Locals dancing in front of a straw-roofed house — D29.1_006748

A raised single-storey straw-roofed house — D29.1_006749

View from a house's veranda of a palm tree and garden — D29.1_006751

View from a house's veranda of a palm tree and garden with houses and jungle trees in the distance — D29.1_006752

View from a house's veranda of adjacent houses — D29.1_006753

A group of local preachers — D29.1_006754

A group of locals gathered around a large crocodile which has been killed — D29.1_006755

View of a mission house behind a palm tree — D29.1_006756

View of an interior with wooden tables, maps of the Congo on the wall as well as a small piano — D29.1_006757

View of a 4-poster bed in a house interior — D29.1_006758

A 'household group' of locals and missionaries — D29.1_006759

A local child operating a Singer's sewing machine — D29.1_006760

A 'household group' of local children and missionaries — D29.1_006761

A baby infant with two local nurses — D29.1_006762

Reverend Clark with a group of local boys — D29.1_006763

A group of local children assembled outside a village schoolhouse — D29.1_006764

A coloured glass slide showing the overgrown path to a village graveyard — D29.1_006765

A village graveyard with simple graves marked with wooden posts and name plaques — D29.1_006766

A single-storey straw-roofed house with a veranda — D29.1_006767

A missionary and local using a 2-man saw to cut a large wooden block into planks — D29.1_006768

A raised single-storey house of the State Officer, with veranda — D29.1_006769

A simple wooden boat being constructed in a low covered shed — D29.1_006770

A built wooden rowboat beside a boat building shed — D29.1_006771

A local blacksmith under a covered shed — D29.1_006772

View of a dead chimpanzee — D29.1_006773

View of a village graveyard with graves marked by stone piles and wooden crosses — D29.1_006774

Local carrying a boar hunted from the nearby jungle — D29.1_006775

A group of local women assembled by a schoolhouse — D29.1_006776

A group of locals assembled in a jungle clearing — D29.1_006777

Portrait of a local with scarification — D29.1_006778

Locals dressing and kneading each others' hair outside a hut — D29.1_006779

A hunted leopard on display — D29.1_006781

A missionary and a local by a simple wooden plank bridge — D29.1_006782

Locals assembled outside a village schoolhouse with a graph of English alphabetical characters in view — D29.1_006783

Local climbing a palm tree — D29.1_006784

A drawn portrait of a local woman — D29.1_006785

A funeral procession displaying a corpse decorated with white markings — D29.1_006786

A large rowing boat on the banks of an wide river — D29.1_006787

A large canoe on the bank of a wide river — D29.1_006788

A portrait of Lusala, a local preacher — D29.1_006789

A large rowing boat with Reverend and Mrs Scrivener on board — D29.1_006790

A single-storey straw-roofed house belonging to a trader — D29.1_006791

A group of assembled locals with simple loincloths and spears — D29.1_006792

View of a small river bay — D29.1_006793

A local girl with an amputated right hand — D29.1_006794

View of a small house being built, currently a wooden frame under jungle trees — D29.1_006795

A group of local children assembled outside a simple plank schoolhouse — D29.1_006796

An anchored paddle steamer viewed through riverside trees — D29.1_006797

View of a hexagonal summer house by a body of water — D29.1_006798

Missionaries gathered around a grave marked by a white picket fence — D29.1_006800

View of a courtyard surrounded by low-ceiling village houses — D29.1_006801

A simple wooden, straw-roofed mission house — D29.1_006802

A large single-storey mission house — D29.1_006803

C12.1_006516 Army Issue Tin Openers

Item Reference: 006516
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Two Second World War tin openers. One inscribed ‘1943, John Watt, Sheffield, England’ and the other inscribed ‘H. J. Heinz Co Ltd, 57 Varieties’
Date: 1943
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C12.1_006515 AFS Badge

Item Reference: 006515
Category: Second World War
Format: Badge
Description: Auxiliary Fire Service buttonhole lapel badge, chromium plated, eight pointed crowned star with red enamel ‘AFS’. Maker’s details on reverse ‘J.Pinches Ltd, London’
Date: 1940s
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C12.1_006514 RAF Benevolent Fund Bell

Item Reference: 006514
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: RAF Benevolent Fund Bell, cast in metal from German aircraft shot down over Britain 1939-45. Depicts busts of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt
Date: 1939-45
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C12.1_006513 ARP Whistle

Item Reference: 006513
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Standard issue, ACME pattern 049, Nickel-plated brass Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden’s whistle. Maufactured by J Hudson and Co. Barr, Hockley, Birmingham. x2
Date: c. 1938
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