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Title:Description:Congolese artifacts brought back by William H. Sheppard and others.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Antiquities--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1929
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Description:Sheppard with a group of native boys, who are wearing western clothing.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Children--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1926
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Description:Sheppard holding a dead antelope, two native men holding spears, and leopard skin drying on a palm tree in background.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Hunting--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1924
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Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1923
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Description:Annie Taylor, Lucy and William Sheppard, with a dead snake.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Sheppard, Lucy J. Gantt, 1867-1955., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Taylor, Annie.Topics:African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1922
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Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1918
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Description:View of Congo River at Matadi looking down river. 1 is the old B.M.S. station of Underhill where Lapsley is buried. 2 is the Swedish mission of Laundi. The great Congo River holds the moral remains of Slaymaker. At the point marked 1 Underhill, the river turns at a sharp angle where it is very narrow, swift and dangerous. The place is known as the "Devils Cauldron" and well deserves its name.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Lapsley, Samuel N. (Samuel Norvell), 1866-1892--Death and burial., Slaymaker, Henry Calvin--Death and burial.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Rivers--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo River., Matadi (Bas-Congo, Congo)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1894
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Description:Sheppard shooting a rifle with native men looking on; leopard skins drying; tent set up to right.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1891
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Description:Sheppard with Chief Maxamalinge, son of Lukenga, King of the Bakuba.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1888
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Title:Description:Five native women with a young girl and a baby.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Children--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1887
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Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Camels--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1886
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Title:Description:Native man and woman by cornstalks with wooden mortar.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1879
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Description:Some evidences of Belgian atrocities brought home by William Henry Sheppard.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic), Atrocities--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1878
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Description:Sheppard with a dead snake, native children standing in background, and dogs to the right.Subject names:American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927.Topics:African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Snakes--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1876
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Description:Group of missionaries: William M. Morrison, Lachlan C. Vass, Joseph E. Phipps, William Sheppard, and Henry Hawkins.Subject names:Morrison, W. M. (William McCutchan), 1867-1918., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Vass, Lachlan Cumming, 1872-1962., Hawkins, Henry P., 1866-, Phipps, Joseph E., American Presbyterian Congo Mission., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives.Topics:Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1871
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Description:Dr. Morrison and Sheppard rejoicing with the natives over the killing of a buffalo.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927.Topics:Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century., Tribes--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Buffaloes--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1868
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Description:William Henry Sheppard practicing in Central Africa what he learned under Dr. S.H. Henkel. People of Bakuba tribe. Sheppard extracting a tooth.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1860-1925., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Dental care--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1866
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Description:William H. Sheppard and the Luther Maxwell Brass Band - Ibanche.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic), Brass bands--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1864
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Title:Description:Chief Njoka of the Kassai, one of Sheppard's witnesses during the rubber libel case.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives.Topics:Luba (African people)--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1856
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Title:Description:William H. Sheppard with his wife, Lucy Gantt Sheppard.Subject names:Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927--Archives., Sheppard, Lucy J. Gantt, 1867-1955., Sheppard, William H. (William Henry), 1865-1927., American Presbyterian Congo Mission.Topics:African American missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic), Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)Geographic subjects:Congo (Democratic Republic)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:1853