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Sepia Closeup of Missionaries and Friends in Cameroun, Africa - 1920s Magic Lantern Slide
NOTE: The original magic lantern slide was beautifully hand-colored. Just for fun, I wanted to see what a closeup would look like done in sepia. Turned out pretty good! And that look on the baby's face - it's absolutely priceless. He's not sure just what to make of that missionary lady!
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This is a closeup from a beautifully hand-colored glass magic lantern slide named "Itinerating by Motorcycle with Side Car" on its accompanying script, which I was fortunate in acquiring along with the slide. The slide is number 8 in a series, and the script text reads: "Or if the road is not too bad, the missionary may make his trips in his motorcycle and side car."
This slide is from a set of slides from the early 1920s entitled "Building a New Africa" produced by "The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City" to promote the mission work of the Presbyterian Church.
The set was meant to be rented for a nominal fee by churches and shown to their congregations to raise money for the missionary endeavor at home and abroad. This particular set supports mission work in Africa. Part of the introductory slide to be read to the audience reads, "The Presbyterian share in the development of the new Africa is confined to a little section of West Africa, just north of the Equator, in the mandated territory of the Cameroun* .... Here the West Africa Mission, with 9 stations, and 88 missionaries, is trying to minister to the needs of 2,000,000 and more people over a territory of 100,000 square miles."
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* Cameroun was a French mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon. During World War I, it was occupied by British and French troops, and later mandated to each country by the League of Nations in 1922. The British mandate was known as Cameroons and the French as Cameroun. Cameroun became independent as the Republic of Cameroun on January 1, 1960, following a complicated series of events and much bloodshed which continued for years afterward.
Sepia Closeup of Missionaries and Friends in Cameroun, Africa - 1920s Magic Lantern Slide
NOTE: The original magic lantern slide was beautifully hand-colored. Just for fun, I wanted to see what a closeup would look like done in sepia. Turned out pretty good! And that look on the baby's face - it's absolutely priceless. He's not sure just what to make of that missionary lady!
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This is a closeup from a beautifully hand-colored glass magic lantern slide named "Itinerating by Motorcycle with Side Car" on its accompanying script, which I was fortunate in acquiring along with the slide. The slide is number 8 in a series, and the script text reads: "Or if the road is not too bad, the missionary may make his trips in his motorcycle and side car."
This slide is from a set of slides from the early 1920s entitled "Building a New Africa" produced by "The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City" to promote the mission work of the Presbyterian Church.
The set was meant to be rented for a nominal fee by churches and shown to their congregations to raise money for the missionary endeavor at home and abroad. This particular set supports mission work in Africa. Part of the introductory slide to be read to the audience reads, "The Presbyterian share in the development of the new Africa is confined to a little section of West Africa, just north of the Equator, in the mandated territory of the Cameroun* .... Here the West Africa Mission, with 9 stations, and 88 missionaries, is trying to minister to the needs of 2,000,000 and more people over a territory of 100,000 square miles."
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* Cameroun was a French mandate territory in central Africa, now constituting the majority of the territory of the Republic of Cameroon. During World War I, it was occupied by British and French troops, and later mandated to each country by the League of Nations in 1922. The British mandate was known as Cameroons and the French as Cameroun. Cameroun became independent as the Republic of Cameroun on January 1, 1960, following a complicated series of events and much bloodshed which continued for years afterward.