Image / Group portrait of school children, Ghana, ca. 1910-1920

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Title: Group portrait of school children, Ghana, ca. 1910-1920
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910/1920
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
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description: "Tarquah Day School, Gold Coast." Large group portrait of children outside building. Rev. William Waterworth served in the Gold Coast from 1910 to 1932 and later also served in Nigeria from 1937 to 1947.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 8.2 x 10.7 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2311 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-007
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2311
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-007.jpg
Subject: Education
Children
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Waterworth, William Garfield, 1881-1956
Group portraits
Time Period: 1910/1920
Place: Africa
Ghana
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/018/007 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
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
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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