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Image / "Church Bell, Blawearie, Jamaica", ca.1920-1940

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Title
"Church Bell, Blawearie, Jamaica", ca.1920-1940
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Photograph of three Jamaican women standing by the church bell at Blawearie. The bell is housed by a thatched roof on top of a wooden pole. The bell tower was often built apart from the church and the congregation would gathered here before church service.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68319 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-033.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68319
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-033.jpg
Subject
Church buildings
Village communities
External views
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
Jamaica
North and Central America
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS12/33 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
The Jamaican Church in the Bush LS12

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