Moored Steamship Peace Upoto=Steamer Peace a Upoto
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
topic: label: Topic
content: Transportation
label: Topic
content: Missionaries
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: JCB: Jean Charles Blanc; Paris, France; Purchase; 1992.
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content: African Postcard Collection
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content: African Postcard Collection / Series 11: Congo Belge (CG)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (b&w, 9 x 14 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [19--]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1985-014, Item Neis 14.25
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
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content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Moored Steamship Peace at the landing point of Upoto, Belguim Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), 250 miles upriver from Stanleyville; published by Nels, Brussels, Belguim, ca. 1920; photographer unknown. The Peace was co-owned by the Reverand W. Holman Bentley and Mr. George Grenfeld, both of the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS). Original caption reads, "Souvenir du Congo: Steamer Peace a Upoto," and original credit reads, "Ed Neis, Bruxelles. Serie 14 No 25."