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Title
Group portrait of mission house staff, Ghana, ca. 1910-1920
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
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
"Mission House Staff, Tarquah." Rev. William Waterworth served in the Gold Coast from 1910 to 1932 and later also served in Nigeria from 1937 to 1947.
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.
Type
image
Format
photographs
printing-out paper, 10.7 x 8.4 cm.
Identifier
impa-m2312 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-008
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2312
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-008.jpg
Subject
Indigenous populations
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Waterworth, William Garfield, 1881-1956
Group portraits
Time Period
1910/1920
Place
Africa
Ghana
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/018/008 [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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