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"The Family. Vizianagram. Augt. 1889" . Group including Herbert and Sarah Goffin with their sons Herbert and Edmund, being held by mrs Goffin and an Indian nurse, Ayah. Other household members include the horse keeper, waterman, sweeper, tailor, cook boy, camp boy, grass cutter and Head Boy, all named. One of 89 albumen prints mounted on 27 loose album pages, taken or compiled by Sarah Goffin, wife of L.M.S. missionary, Herbert James Goffin (1850-1932). Sarah Goffin sailed to India following her marriage in 1878 and spent the next eleven years at the L.M.S. station at Vizianagaram, before moving on to other districts in India. Engravings based on a number of these photographs appear in the Chronicle of the London Missionary Society, including 1886 and 1888.
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