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Title
Bhithirwa
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
Centre for the Study of World Christianity
Contact the repository for details.
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
Tinted lantern slide showing a view of a crowd of people in the village of Bhitiharwa (here spelled Bhithirwa), Bihar state, India. Men, women and children are in the crowd, and a dog and a cow can be seen in the foreground. The photograph was taken by M.T Peters. This slide comes from a collection created by missionaries from Regions Beyond Missionary Union, an interdenominational Protestant evangelical mission working in northeast India (Bihar and Orissa) and Nepal.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-46.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78262
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW33-OS14-46.jpg
Subject
Rural areas
Villages
Cattle
Dogs
Group portraits
Time Period
1910/1920
Place
Asia
Bihar
India
populated places
Source
CSCNWW33/OS14/46 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s
Regions Beyond Missionary Union. India captioned lantern slides (CSCNWW33/OS14)

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