Workshops at Dima, headquarters of Kasai Company
View of Baringa beach with mission steamer Pioneer at anchor
The sunken S. S. Matadi at Boma
The S. S. Wall steaming up the Congo
Taking the anchor of S. S. Antoinette ashore at wooding post above, Tse Modane, Kasai River
Taking skins on board the S. S. Zaire at San Thiago, Cape Verde Islands
Sunset at Cape Lopez, shewing [sic] river steamer of Ogowé
Steamship and River
Unknown. This image formed part of the Harris Lantern Slide Collection. Under King Leopold II the Congo Free State used mass forced labour to extract rubber from the jungle for the European market. As consumer demand grew King Leopold II's private army - the Force Publique - used violent means to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including murder, mutilation, rape, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband Reverend John H. Harris were missionaries in the Congo Free State from the late 1890s. Alice produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the African rubber labourers. Her photographs are considered to be an important development in the history of humanitarian campaigning. The images were used in a number of publications. The Harrises also used the photographs to develop the Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture which toured Britain and the the USA raising awareness of the issue of colonial abuses under King Leopold II's regime. Source: Antislavery International.
Steamers Livingstone and Endeavour in Bolengi beach, near Coquilhatville. Upper Congo
Steamer on Kasai River, carrying to the railhead an agent of the Katanga Company far gone in sleeping sickness
Steamboat
Unknown. This image formed part of the Harris Lantern Slide Collection. Under King Leopold II the Congo Free State used mass forced labour to extract rubber from the jungle for the European market. As consumer demand grew King Leopold II's private army - the Force Publique - used violent means to coerce the population into meeting quotas, including murder, mutilation, rape, village burning, starvation and hostage taking. Alice Seeley Harris and her husband Reverend John H. Harris were missionaries in the Congo Free State from the late 1890s. Alice produced a collection of images documenting the horrific abuses of the African rubber labourers. Her photographs are considered to be an important development in the history of humanitarian campaigning. The images were used in a number of publications. The Harrises also used the photographs to develop the Congo Atrocity Lantern Lecture which toured Britain and the the USA raising awareness of the issue of colonial abuses under King Leopold II's regime. Source: Antislavery International.
South African liner, on which Mr. and Mrs. Harris travelled, detained at Madeira to load extra coal on account of the strike
South African liner, detained to take on coal at Madeira, owing to coal strike
S. S. Wall steaming up Congo River, below Matadi
S. S. Livingstone, anchored at Leopoldville
S. S. Lapsley steaming up the Kasai
S. S. Hemptinne on the Kasai River
S. S. Berthe, formerly known as S. S. Lapsley, capsized at Kwamouth in 1902, when one white man and twenty natives were drowned
Rev. John Howell Captain of S. S. Endeavour during a tornado
