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Title
Pioneer woman missionary to China, ca. 1878
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1878
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
United Reformed Church
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"Miss Ricketts". Catherine Ricketts was the first missionary of the Womens' Missionary Association (English Presbyterian Mission). Having previously served on the Brighton School Board she was appointed a missionary to China in 1878 at the age of thirty-seven. She served in the Shantou mission-field until 1907.
Type
image
Format
Photographic print, 14.3 x 10 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m7664 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-PCE-4-12-02-08
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m7664
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-PCE-4-12-02-08.jpg
Subject
Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions
Portraits
Time Period
circa 1878
Place
Brighton
England
Source
SOAS/PCE/Lingdong,Swatow/Photographs/02/08 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
Presbyterian Church of England's Foreign Missions Committee
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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