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Title
Indigenous minister and family, West Africa, ca. 1910
Creator
Balmer, William Turnbull
Date Created and/or Issued
1901/1920
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
"Rev E J Fyle, native minister, and family." Kennema, West Africa. Balmer served as the head of Richmond College in Freetown, Sierra Leone, then at Mfantsipim High School at Cape Coast before returning to Fourah Bay ministerial training college back in Freetown. Balmer spent vacations travelling with James Walton in order to acquire new languages. He published many educational books, in English and African languages.
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. Rev. Balmer served in the Sierra Leone and Gambia district from 1901 to 1909 when he transferred to the Gold Coast briefly until 1911. He resumed his work in Sierra Leone from 1914 to 1921.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 10.8 x 15.2 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2193 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-001-006
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2193
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-001-006.jpg
Subject
Clergy
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Balmer, William Turnbull, 1866-1928
Group portraits
Time Period
1901/1920
Place
Africa
Kenema
Sierra Leone
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/001/006 [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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