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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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