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Title
"Farm School Boys with Rev R.N. Dickson, Monetgo Bay, Jamaica", early 20th century
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
after 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
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
Photograph of a group of farm school boys pictured with Rev R.N. Dickson outside a farm school near Montego Bay. The boys are all local Jamaican boys. Farm schools were run under missionary supervision and offered both teaching and practical training.
Scottish missionaries worked at Montego Bay from the 19th century and in 1836 the first presbytery of the Jamaican Church was constituted here with a group of 7 missionaries.
Type
image
Format
1 lantern slide : 8 x 8 cm.
lantern slides
Identifier
impa-m68290 [Legacy record ID]
imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-019.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m68290
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS12-019.jpg
Subject
Religious education
Agriculture
Missionaries
External views
Place
Jamaica
Montego Bay
North and Central America
after 1900
Source
GB 237 CSWC47/LS12/19 [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
The Jamaican Church in the Bush LS12

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