The beach at Yalemba, Stanley Falls District
Telegraph posts on banks of Kasai River, near Kwamouth
Tapping rubber trees at Yala, Juapa River
Taking the anchor of S. S. Antoinette ashore at wooding post above, Tse Modane, Kasai River
Sunset behind island near Yalemba. Stanley Falls District
Sunset at Cape Lopez, shewing [sic] river steamer of Ogowé
Stream through Roca, San Tomè.
Stream through cocoa roça, San Thomé, bamboos interlacing overhead
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
Scene near the limit of navigation, Kasai River, above Luebo
Scene below the cataracts at Stanley Pool
S. S. Wall steaming up Congo River, below Matadi
S. S. Livingstone, anchored at Leopoldville
S. S. Lapsley steaming up the Kasai
