The collection of photographs of the Colonial Office offers priced information on the evolution of architecture and urban planning at the time of the colonial Congo. The colonial office was background & eacute; In 1907 by Opold II as a documentation service which was to inform potential investors in the Congo. The collection of photographs has probably Offered in 1941 at MRAC. It has a total of 7,233 photos. The collection constitutes an important comprehensive in the archives of the colonial office which are preserved in the African archives of the Belgian minister of business & eagve; ; Colonial office deal with varies. A limited photo of photos concerns ethnographic subjects such as villages, markets, & lsquo; A part is composed of landscaping photographs with images of mountains, rivi & egrave and waterfalls, and a remarkable fence concerns the formation of clouds & rsquo;. The majority; From the collection, however, is composed of photos which illustrate the infrastructure of the colonial project: railways, ports, bridges, ts, urban views, all kinds of b & acirc; P> The infrastructure photographs are graly classified by typological ries: Habitations, h & Ocirc; Pitales, & eacute; Coles, B & Acirci; and also sometimes by th & egrave, as for example & lsquo; The collection includes an int even Katanga photographic report during the P & Eacute; Rioder 1910-1914, R & Eacute; by Edmond Leplae, the director of the Power of the Agronomic Service of the Minister of the Colonies. Doctor's photographic relationship Durationn concerning the infrastructure of the dicale & agrave; Astrida, Boende and Bukama, is also worth a mention of the Cial. Although the colonial office is an official documentation service, the collections include innumerable images of mission positions. & Nbsp;

& agrave; Starting from 1933, the colonial office was dated in a colonial propaganda organ. He thus played & eacute; An important thing in the organization of the sections on the Belgian Congo for diffosite universal exhibitions. After the Second World War, the colonial office of taken up by the ministry of the colonies. In 1947, the service was a mantel & eacute; and replac & eacute; by new structures.