Handwritten texts on verso contact print reads, " Lusambo church."
Judge E. Gorlia's first journey in the Belgian Congo from December 1909 to January 1912.
Lusambo was established in February 1890 as a fortified camp on the Sankuru River, from which place the Congo Free State could conduct exploration of katanga and military operations against the Arabs in the Lomami-Lualaba area. In 1910 it was the headquarters of the Kasai province and a growing commercial post.
The Roman Catholic Church is represented at Lusambo by the Gent Brothers of Charity and by the Scheut Fathers at St Trudon.
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