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Title: Female missionary with women making lace, Tamil Nadu, India, ca. 1900
Creator: Raw, Harwood W
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1900
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
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Description: "Lace workers at Ikkadu, Tiruvallur". "Madras District. From early days, women missionaries made needlework a point of contact with the Indian women. Ikkadu lacework is now an important industry." Miss Mollie Scott with Indian women lace makers. Miss Scott carried out educational missionary work with women in the Madras district from 1896 to 1939.
The Madras [now Tamil Nadu] District was the first mission to be established in India in 1817. Rev. Harwood Raw served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905 from cholera.
Type: image
Format: photographs
printing-out paper, 11.7 x 15.9 cm.
Identifier: impa-m2376 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-004-008
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2376
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-10-20-004-008.jpg
Subject: Indigenous populations
Handicrafts
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Raw, Harwood W, 1871-1905
Group portraits
Time Period: circa 1900
Place: India
Tamil Nadu
Source: SOAS/MMS/INS/1199/004/008 [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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