Vintage Photograph Album: Methodist Missions in Africa: Angola, Congo, Rhodesia, 1921-33

Family photograph album documenting the missions established by Robert Shields & Family, mostly in East Africa, 1921-1933.

Approximately 375 photos, various sizes [2x3" to 6x8"] and condition. Mounted in tattered family album; many photos faded. Best to follow this link to all the photos in situ:

Laid in is a hand-colored poster/drawing: "Those People are Dying of Sin in Africa" SIZE

Reverend Robert Shields, his wife Louise Shields, and members of their family were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They first went to Africa in the 1880s and 1890s as part of Bishop William Taylor's self-supporting missions. They worked as missionaries in Angola until 1936, and their children and grandchildren remained in Angola and Zimbabwe. These photographs, dating from the 1921-33, portray the lives of missionaries in Africa through portraits and snapshots of the Shields family, photographs of schoolchildren, tribal dignitaries, mission buildings, and various scenes of daily African life and landscapes.

Some of the photographs are dated and captioned; most appear to be in chronological order within location:

Capetown to Luanda [Angola]

Quionga

Columbaloca

Punga Adongo

Ambaca region

Caxicane

Cuanza River

Loanda School

Mutambara Mission School

Portuguese East

Chicauque

Inhambabe

Kambove

Kabongo

NTombo Village

Kapanga