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Title
Missionary and wife with Christian converts, Anatom, ca.1890
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1890
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
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Photographs by Mr. Lawrie. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrie and natives.” Group portrait of James Hay Lawrie, his wife, Margaret, and locals wearing cloth garments. They pose to the side of a thatched building. Lawrie was a Presbyterian missionary from Edinburgh and based on Aneityum [Anatom], New Hebrides [Vanuatu], from 1879-1896. Later he was minister of several charges in New South Wales. They had four children. Margaret Lawrie died in 1922 and her husband in 1929.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 10 x 15.6 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75653970-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79540
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75653970-1.jpg
Subject
Indigenous peoples
Lawrie, James Hay, missionary, New Hebrides, 1849-1929
Lawrie, Margaret, missionary, New Hebrides, fl.1890
Families
Group portraits
Time Period
circa 1890
Place
Anatom
Oceania
Tafea Province
Vanuatu
Source
Acc.7548/F/19 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75653968 [File]
Relation
Missions in the New Hebrides’ Islands", ca.1890
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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