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Title: Mary Slessor (1848-1915)
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1880
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
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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: Portrait image of Mary Slessor seated with a book in her hand. Signed, "Yours in Royal Service, Mary Slessor".
Mary Slessor was a Scottish missionary known for her work in Africa and for promoting women's rights. At the age of 27 she became a missionary in Calabar (located within later day Nigeria) where she successfully fought against a number of issues including the killing of twins at infancy. Mary died in Calabar at the age of 67 and was given a state burial.
Type: image
Format: 1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier: impa-m68146 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-002.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68146
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-002.jpg
Subject: Religion
Human Rights
Slessor, Mary Mitchell, 1848-1915
Portraits
Time Period: 1848/1915
Place: Africa
Nigeria
Source: GB 237 CSWC47/LS2/2 [File]
Relation: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Mary Slessor LS2
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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