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| Keywords: Cape to Cairo Ry., Congo, ca. 1900-1915 (IMP-CSCNWW33-OS10-82).jpg 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 1900 1915 author http //digitallibrary usc edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll123/id/78085 PD-old-70-1923 Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Cape to Cairo Railway Unidentified steam locomotives Cape to Cairo Railway Rail transport in the 20th century Cape to Cairo Railway History of rail transport Cape to Cairo Railway History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Cape to Cairo Railway Congo-Balolo Mission Railway Magic lantern images Images from USC Digital Library uploaded by Fæ International Mission Photography Archive ca 1860-ca 1960 en Cape to Cairo Railway | ||||
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