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No binding. Condition: Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8", 24-page booklet. Possibly a NY World's Fair handout based on 1939 date of back cover map. Original item, size as stated, dimensions given, if any, are approximate. SHIPPING NOTE: We combine all items ordered for one shipping cost of $4.94. Please use the shopping cart before paying for STORE items. Or wait until all your AUCTION items are completed and REQUEST an invoice.Dimensions given, if any, are approximate. Condition as shown. Defects not visible in scan[s] are described. Item is complete as issued unless otherwise stated. NO facsimiles, copies, reprints or reproductions unless specifically stated in description above. Pictures show actual item, never a stock image.CAUTION to INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: We do ship outside the USA, BUT ebaY Shipping is costly and we cannot modify what ebaY establishes in their system. So BEFORE BIDDING, please check to see what you would have to pay to receive any item.INVOICES for INTERNATIONAL COMBINED ORDERS cannot be created by us.ebaY Recommends:Make your purchase[s], click PAY NOW on ANY item & an adjusted rate for shipping multiple items should apply.This is new to the ebaY International Shipping option list. If it still fails, please advise. Your complete postl address will help.

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Belgian colonial Congo photo archive depicting European officials, Indigenous Congolese adults and children, public ceremony, domestic labor, and railway grounds between the early twentieth century and 1950. Belgium formally ruled the Congo from 1908 until June 30, 1960, after King Leopold II's Congo Free State became notorious for forced labor and violence against Congolese people. A few scenes highlight colonial hierarchy as one photo shows white men in suits, helmets, and uniforms pose formally in chairs while Congolese men, women, and children appear as attendants or anthropological subjects surrounding the trio. A 1947 inscription identifying "le régent Charles" places part of the group during the Belgian prince regent's postwar tour of the Congo, eight years before King Baudouin visited in 1955 and thirteen years before Congolese independence on June 30, 1960. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 3" x 4" to 3.5" x 4.75", Belgian Congo, 1900-1950. French inscriptions include "Congo Belge, août 1950"; "le régent Charles 1947"; "lundi le 18 janvier 1943, avec notre meilleur bonjour de tous les trois"; and "travailleur portant à l'eau," meaning "worker carrying water." Other scenes show a uniformed colonial procession outside a brick building, helmeted men posed in the bush, an elephant captioned with French notes, Congolese children at a water spout, men carrying water, a compound walkway, a railway yard, and Congolese drummers and dancers assembled before mixed local and colonial audiences. The dichotomy of colonists occupying the pose of command, travel, inspection, and ownership, while Indigenous Congolese people appear in the surrounding labor, ceremony, and service spaces make for a compelling collection. Belgian rule in the Congo depended on racial separation, administrative paternalism, extraction, mission education, and controlled public ceremony, while Congolese political demands intensified after the Second World War and culminated in independence on June 30, 1960. Light toning, handling, and corner wear; photos remain clear and several inscriptions legible en verso; overall in very good condition. This archive gives Belgian colonialism a concrete human scale through officials posed with indigenous children, workers, ceremonial performers, industrial railway spaces, and royal reception scenes arranged around the unequal encounter between European power and Indigenous Congolese life.

Congolese ceremonial and colonial encounter photo archive showing indigenous ceremonial dance, dress, and culture, uniformed troops, and Belgian officials in the Belgian Congo during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Key scenes are tied to the 1947 visit of Prince Regent Charles to Paulis. Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908 until independence on June 30, 1960, after the Belgian parliament took over King Leopold II's Congo Free State following international exposure of forced labor and mass abuses. Several captions appear to place the photographs during the governorship of Eugène Jungers, Governor General of the Belgian Congo from December 31, 1946 to January 1, 1952, a period when Belgian rule promoted "paternal" administration while Congolese political pressure and demands for advancement were growing. The strongest scenes center Congolese public ceremony rather than colonial officials alone: men dancing in lines, drummers seated before large instruments, children gathered for viewing, and performers facing crowds in open fields and palm-lined roads. Chief Tongolo and his daughter appear among colonial representatives during the Prince Regent's visit, giving the archive a named Indigenous presence within a public ceremony shaped by Belgian authority. Photo archive of 24 silver gelatin photographs, measuring approximately 3" x 4" each, Belgian Congo, 1940s-1950s. Several French captions can be translated; "Governor General Jungers"; "the regiment's standard at the cemetery"; "parade of the veterans"; and "Congolo gives his speech." Congolese men dance in feathered or fiber headdresses, body ornaments, patterned waist cloths, shields, and drums, sometimes advancing across open ground before lines of onlookers. Belgian men in white suits and pith helmets stand with Congolese adults and children outside official buildings and in outdoor assembly areas, while other scenes show African soldiers in formation, a ceremony near railroad tracks, a colonial cemetery observance, and a station or compound with crowds gathered along walls and platforms. After the Second World War, Belgium's Congo policy remained formally paternalist, while urbanization, war service, missionary education, and wage labor created new Congolese claims to political recognition that colonial rule could not contain;within thirteen years of Prince Regent Charles's 1947 visit, the Congo gained it's independence and became Republic of the Congo. Light handling wear, toning, and minor curling; captions remain legible on several versos, images remain clean and clear. Overall in very good condition. The archive records Congolese ceremonial life at the point where public dance, veteran commemoration, colonial ceremony, military display, and Belgian administrative power occupied the same public spaces.